Anusree Roy

Anusree Roy is a Governor General's Award-nominated writer and actor whose work has premiered internationally. Her credits for television include story editing for Remedy season one and Killjoys season five along with Executive Story Editing for Nurses season one. On Remedy Anusree was the series regular playing Nurse Patel for two seasons along with guest-starring on Saving Hope and Nurses. Anusree played the role of Mrs. Patel on the short film Stir. She is currently developing her series The Complex with New Metric Media. Her plays and performances have won her four Dora Mavor Moore Awards along with multiple nominations. She is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award, the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award, The Carol Bolt Award and The Siminovitch Protégé Prize. She was the 2018 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (The oldest and largest prize in the world, awarded to women playwrights writing in the English language), . Anusree's playwright residencies include: Nightwood Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Blyth Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille and The Canadian Stage Company. Anusree spent two seasons as an actor at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Anusree's plays include: Trident Moon, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, Sultans of the Street, Brothel # 9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, and Pyaasa. Her opera librettos include: The Golden Boy and Noor over Afghan. She holds a B.A. from York University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto and most of her plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. Anusree was a board member for Playwrights Canada Press for over five years along with being a juror for the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Michael Than Foundation Award, Toronto Arts Foundation Awards and the George Luscombe Mentorship Award. Her works have appeared in multiple anthologies including: Refractions: Scenes, Refractions: Solo, Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays, Truth in Play, Dramathemes, TOK: Writing the New Toronto and Diaspora Dialogues Anthology. Anusree's plays have been taught at the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, Wilfried Laurier University, the University of Calgary, the University of Guelph, the University of Regina, McGill University and the National Theatre School. Show less «