Described by the Toronto Star as “a Canadian playwright to watch,” and “one of Toronto’s most exciting playwrights,” Michael Ross Albert is a Dora Award-nominated writer whose work has been staged across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Production credits include The Bidding War (commissioned and produced by Crow's Theatre) Beautiful Renegades (commissioned and produced by Peggy Baker Dance Projects), When I’m Gone (commissioned and produced by Mountain Movers Theatre Company), Two Minutes to Midnight (The Assembly Theatre), Miss (Unit 102), The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (published in "Best American Short Plays 2014-2015) and Tough Jews (Dora Award nomination, Outstanding New Play).
Michael's work has been presented in multiple Fringe festivals, including Edinburgh, Brighton, and FringeNYC. Five of his plays were staged in the Toronto Fringe Festival, including: The Huns, Anywhere (both: Patron’s Pick and Best of Fringe), and most recently, Good Old Days.
Michael is currently working on new plays commissioned by the Stratford Festival and the Blyth Festival. He has an MFA in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School.
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