Edge Rewrite
everything Source code View original
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

// request.cf · coarse context

A page that knows where it met you.

Only coarse request metadata is shown. This demo does not display or persist visitor IP addresses.

Country
US
Cloudflare location
CMH
Connection
HTTP/2
Language
Not provided

Ray ID: a229fdb42de46c75

Jump to content

Michael Healey

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor.

Life and career

[edit]

He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985.[1]

Healey trained as an actor at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties.[2] He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996.[3] He subsequently toured the play across Canada and Australia, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Original Play (Independent Theatre).[4]

The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999[5] and won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play,[6] a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award,[7] and the Governor General's Award for English-language drama.[8] It has been produced across North America and internationally, and has been translated into German, French, and Japanese.[9][10][11] It was adapted into a film in 2017.[12]

His other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch),[13] Plan B,[14] Rune Arlidge,[15] The Innocent Eye Test,[16] The Nuttals,[17] and Are You Okay?[18] From 2008 to 2012 he created a trilogy of plays about Canadian values and politics, entitled Generous,[19] Courageous,[20] and Proud.[21] His plays have won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Original Play (General Theatre) five times in total.[6][22][23][24][25]

He has also adapted works by George Bernard Shaw,[26] Anton Chekhov,[27] Ferenc Molnár,[28] Friedrich Dürrenmatt,[29] and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.[30]

Michael Healey has several TV acting credits, including a regular role as lawyer James Ryder on the CBC comedy-drama This Is Wonderland.[31][32] His stage acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (The League of Nathans, Reading Hebron, and Three in the Back, Two in the Head) and George F. Walker (The End of Civilization and Better Living).[4]

Plays

[edit]

Awards

[edit]
Year Nominated work Award Category Result Ref.
1998 Kicked Dora Mavor Moore Awards Best Original Play (Independent Theatre) Won [4]
1999 The Drawer Boy Best Original Play (General Theatre) [6]
Governor General's Awards English-language drama [8]
2000 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award [7]
2002 Plan B Dora Mavor Moore Awards Best Original Play (General Theatre) [22]
2004 Rune Arlidge Governor General's Awards English-language drama Nominated [36]
2007 Generous Dora Mavor Moore Awards Best Original Play (General Theatre) Won [23]
2010 Courageous [24]
Courageous Governor General's Awards English-language drama Nominated [37]
2017 1979 [38]
2024 The Master Plan Dora Mavor Moore Awards Best Production (General Theatre) [39]
Best Original Play (General Theatre) Won [25]
2026 Rogers v. Rogers Nominated [40]

References

[edit]
  1. ↑ Nunes, Jacqueline (2005-01-26). "RYE GRAD IN WONDERLAND". The Eyeopener. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  2. ↑ "Michael Healey on Exploring Toronto's Quashed 'Smart City' Google Collaboration in His Hilarious New Play". Open Book. September 8, 2023. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  3. 1 2 Unger, Michael J (2009-09-16). "Kicked: just like the kids, this play may have potential". PLANK Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  4. 1 2 3 Nothof, Anne. "Healey, Michael". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  5. 1 2 Raeburn, Alan (February 23, 1999). "The Drawer Boy Pulled Out at Theatre Passe Muraille Feb. 23". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  6. 1 2 3 Cushman, Robert (June 22, 1999). "The Drawer Boy gets load of Doras, but Soulpepper's Don Carlos is overlooked". National Post.
  7. 1 2 "Chalmers slams rich at arts awards". Toronto Star. May 16, 2000.
  8. 1 2 "Matt Cohen, Marq de Villiers win GG literary awards". The Western STar. November 17, 1999.
  9. ↑ Gabriel, Barbara (2022-09-02). "'The Drawer Boy and Another Way of Telling History". The Theatre Times. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  10. ↑ Bresloff, Alan. "'The Drawer Boy'". AROUND THE TOWN CHICAGO. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  11. ↑ Anne, Nothof. "The Drawer Boy". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  12. ↑ Sumi, Glenn (2018-11-22). "Review: The Drawer Boy is a moving adaptation of the seminal play". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  13. 1 2 Friedlander, Mira (1999-11-15). "The Road to Hell". Variety. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  14. 1 2 Caldwell, Rebecca (January 5, 2002). "Michael Healey". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  15. 1 2 Posner, Michael (March 1, 2004). "Life after The Drawer Boy". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  16. 1 2 Posner, Michael (February 11, 2006). "Playwright Passes his Eye Test". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  17. 1 2 Nestruck, J. Kelly (August 22, 2009). "No 'Pearson' insights in this clever comedy". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  18. 1 2 Crabb, Michael (March 7, 2011). "Are You Okay intriguing, problematic". The Toronto Star. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  19. 1 2 Taylor, Kate (September 14, 2012). "Like Stephen Harper, Michael Healey is on a mission". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  20. 1 2 Ouzounian, Richard (January 7, 2010). "Courageous: Healey's latest play takes a big step forward". The Toronto Star. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  21. 1 2 Nestruck, J. Kelly (September 27, 2012). "Michael Healey's Proud is funny and foul-mouthed, yet surprisingly sweet". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  22. 1 2 Jones, Kenneth (June 19, 2002). "Complete List of 2002 Dora Mavor Moore Award-Winners, Honoring Toronto Theatre". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  23. 1 2 "Complete list of Dora winners". The Toronto Star. 2007-06-26. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  24. 1 2 Mooney, Megan (June 29, 2010). "The 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients are…". Mooney on Theatre. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  25. 1 2 Sumi, Glenn (2024-07-19). "Dora Awards 2024: 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' earns four statuettes at Toronto's top theatre honours". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  26. ↑ Citron, Paula (August 17, 2011). "On the Rocks". Classical FM. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  27. ↑ Hoile, Christopher (2002-09-14). "Review - Absolutely Chekhov - Soulpepper, Toronto". Stage Door. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  28. ↑ Hoile, Christopher (2005-07-28). "Review - Olympia - Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto". Stage Door. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  29. ↑ Ouzounian, Richard (2015-05-27). "Stratford's The Physicists engaging and thought-provoking: review". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  30. ↑ "Stratford Festival adds journalism comedy-drama The Front Page to its 2019 playbill". The Toronto Star. September 7, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  31. ↑ "Michael Healey". IMDb. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  32. ↑ Williams, Paul (April 9, 2012). "Michael Healey". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  33. ↑ Wells, Paul (April 17, 2017). "Joe Clark struts and frets his hour". Maclean's. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  34. ↑ Murphy, Aisling (2023-09-14). "The Master Plan is Crow's Theatre at its best". Intermission Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  35. ↑ Eqbal, Amelia (December 16, 2025). "Rogers v. Rogers talks 'about power in Canada at the place where it happens'". CBC Arts.
  36. ↑ "Governor General award nominee 'hugely relieved' with book reviews". Guelph Mercury. November 13, 2004.
  37. ↑ Kaplan, Jon (2010-10-14). "Dramatic clean sweep". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  38. ↑ "Kathleen Winter, Joel Thomas Hynes among Governor General's Awards finalists". CityNews Toronto. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  39. ↑ Murphy, Aisling (2024-05-28). "TAPA announces 2024 Dora Award nominees". Intermission Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  40. ↑ Rabinowitz, Chloe (2026-06-01). "TAPA Reveals 2026 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Healey&oldid=1363238952"