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.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in theatre from York University and a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto.
Theatre work She premiered her first piece, breathlessness, in 2006. 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).
Her subsequent plays have included Letters to My Grandma, Roshni, and Brothel #9. 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. She has also won the RBC Emerging Artist Award, 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.
She has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company, 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 Letters to My Grandma 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
Awards and nominations +YearNominated workAwardCategoryResultRef. 2008 Pyaasa Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding New Play or Musical Outstanding Performance by a Female 2009 RBC Emerging Artist Award 2010 Letters to My Grandma Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding New Play Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role – Play 2011 Brothel #9 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding New Play Carol Bolt Award K.M. Hunter Artist Award Theatre Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Protégé 2012Brothel #9Governor General's AwardsEnglish-language drama Finalist2014Sultans of the StreetDora Mavor Moore AwardOutstanding New Play for Young Audiences2018Trident MoonSusan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist2025Dora Mavor Moore AwardOutstanding New PlayLittle Pretty and the ExceptionalGovernor General's AwardsEnglish-language drama Finalist 2026 Through the Eyes of God Toronto Theatre Critics Award Best Production of a Play Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding New Play 2026 Allegiance Canadian Screen Awards Best Guest Performance, Drama Series
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