Nick Green

Nick is a Dora Mavor Moore, Heritage Toronto, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, and Tom Hendry award winning playwright and book writer based in Toronto.

Nick’s play Casey and Diana premiered with a sold-out run at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 2023 before transferring to Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. In the 2024/25 season, Casey and Diana has been one of the most produced plays in Canada, with productions at The Arts Club Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Aquarius, and Neptune Theatre. Upcoming 2025/26 productions include Yes Theatre, The Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Unicorn Theatre, and American Players Theatre.

Casey and Diana was the recipient of the 2024 Critic’s Choice Award and the Heritage Toronto Public History Award, and nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award, Outstanding New Play.

Dinner with the Duchess is a tense 80 minute three-hander that explores themes of legacy, forgiveness, and sexism. The play had a developmental production in the 2018 Next Stage Festival before enjoying a 2024 production with Here for Now and Crow’s Theatre.

Dr Silver, a dark new musical for which Nick is the book writer (with composers Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson), was showcased for the second time at California’s South Coast Repertory as a part of their Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2023.

Nick’s play Body Politic, which explores the legacy of one of Canada’s first LGBT Publications, was co-produced by Buddies in Bad Times and lemonTree Creations, and won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, General Theatre Division, and has been published by Playwrights Canada Press.

Every Day She Rose, a play about the Black Lives Matter protest at Toronto Pride, co-written with Andrea Scott has enjoyed productions by Nightwood Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop, Here for Now Theatre, and ZeeZee Theatre.

Other favourite credits include In Real Life (book, MSC); Happy Birthday Baby J (Shadow Theatre); Poof! The Musical (Capitol Theatre); and Coffee Dad, Chicken Mom, and the Fabulous Buddha Boi, a solo show about coming out, the production of which won three Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards.