Michele Riml is a critically acclaimed playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her first play, Souvenirs, won The BC Young Playwrights Search. Some of her other works include Under the Influence, Poster Boys, RAGE (winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk Award), which has been produced in French, Polish, and German; On the Edge; and The Amaryllis, which was produced by The Search Party and premiered at The Fire Hall Theatre in Vancouver in the fall of 2020. The Cull, co-written with Michael St. John Smith, premiered at The Arts Club Theatre in 2023.
Michele’s play Sexy Laundry has become an international hit, translated into more than 17 languages, and enjoyed by audiences in Canada, the United States, and Europe. It continues to be produced worldwide, along with its sequel Henry and Alice: Into the Wild.
Michele also writes for young audiences, and her plays for YPT have been widely produced and translated. These include The Skinny Lie, The Invisible Girl, and Tree Boy, which was published by National Geographic and most recently produced in Athens, Greece. Her most recent play, She Shoots, She Scores!, an adaptation of hockey legend Cammi Granato’s book I Can Play, Too!, will premiere in 2026 with Green Thumb Theatre.
Michele is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's FPA program. In 2008, she was nominated for the Siminovitch Prize.
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