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Anusree Roy | |
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 Roy in May 2019 | |
| Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Writer and actress |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Pyaasa, Brothel #9, Letters to my Grandma, Roshni, Sultans of the Street, Trident Moon, Sisters |
| Spouse | Ryan Ravi Tiwari (m.2018) |
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| Official Website | |
Anusree Roy is a Canadian award-winning writer of plays, television, film and libretto. She is also an actress. [1] [2]
Roy was born in Kolkata, India and holds a B.A in theatre from York University and an M.A from the University of Toronto. [1] Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17.
She played Nurse Patel on the TV show Remedy in 2014 and 2015. She was a story editor for Remedy in its first season. [3] She was an Executive Story Editor, on season 5 of CTV/SyFy's Killjoys . [4] She has been an Executive Story Editor and Consulting Producer on Nurses, season one and two respectively on NBC/GlobalTV. She has been the Consulting Producer of Transplant on NBC/CTV. [5]
She premiered her first piece, breathlessness, in 2006. [1] Her play Pyaasa debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2007, and won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the independent theatre division in 2008, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance (Female). [1] Her subsequent plays have included Letters to My Grandma, Roshni and Brothel #9. [1] Brothel #9 won the Carol Bolt Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2011, and was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2012 Governor General's Awards. [1] She has also won the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the K. M. Hunter Award and the Siminovitch Protege Prize. Trident Moon, premiered at London, England's Finborough Theatre [6] and was a 2017-2018 Susan Smith Blackburn finalist. [7] Her subsequent play Little Pretty & The Exceptional premiered at Factory Theatre in 2017 [8] and was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore awards, under the acting category. [9] Her audio play Sisters premiered online at Apple Podcast and Spotify on March 20, 2021. [10] She has premiered two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy. [1]
She has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood Theatre, Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and is co-artistic director with David DeGrow and Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy. [11]
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