Anusree Roy

Anusree Roy is a Canadian playwright, actor, screenwriter, and co-executive producer. Anusree is a two-time finalist for the Governor General's Award and four-time Dora Award-winner; she has also been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for "Best Guest Performance, Drama Series" for the television show Allegiance.

Education Roy was born in Kolkata, India, and immigrated to Canada with her family as a teenager. the K.M. Hunter Award, and the Siminovitch Protege Prize.

Trident Moon premiered at the Finborough Theatre in London, England, and was a 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist. Her subsequent play Little Pretty & The Exceptional premiered at the Factory Theatre in 2017.

Her audio play Sisters premiered online on Apple Podcasts and Spotify on March 20, 2021. She has written two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy. Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood Theatre, Factory Theatre, and Blyth Festival. She is co-artistic director with David DeGrow and Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy.

In 2025, her play "Trident Moon" premiered in a joint-production at Crow's Theatre in Toronto, and National Arts Centre, in Ottawa, Ontario. It was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding New Play".

In 2026, her play "Through the Eyes of God" premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto; it has been awarded the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for "Best Production of a Play"; it has also been nominated for the upcoming Dora Mavor Moore Award, for 'Outstanding New Play'.

Television work She played Nurse Patel on the television series Remedy in 2014 and 2015. She was also a story editor for Remedy in its first season. She was an executive story editor on season 5 of sci-fi drama Killjoys. She has been an executive story editor and consulting producer, respectively, on the first two seasons of Nurses. She was a consulting producer and writer on CTV's Transplant.

She has also been a creative consultant in the Netflix show I Woke Up A Vampire, as well as supervising producer and writer in Paramount+/CBC's SkyMed. Her recent writing works include CBC's Allegiance and AMC's The Vampire Lestat.

Adjunct professor Anusree Roy has been an adjunct professor of playwriting at the University of Toronto, and a professor of creating writing, teaching advanced writing of drama to Master of Fine Arts students, at the University of British Columbia.

Plays Pyaasa Roshni – The play follows two young beggars in the streets of Kolkata who are determined to take destiny into their own hands. Brothel # 9 Sultans of the Street Little Pretty and The Exceptional Trident Moon Sisters Through the Eyes of God

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