Nick Green (writer)

Nick Green is a Canadian actor and playwright.[1] He won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2017 for his play Body Politic,[2] a dramatization of the history of the Canadian LGBTQ newsmagazine The Body Politic.[3]

Nick Green
Occupationactor, playwright
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Alberta
Notable worksBody Politic

A graduate of the University of Alberta,[4] his prior plays have included Gayface,[5] On the Wire,[6] Undercovered,[7] Coffee Dad, Chicken Mom and the Fabulous Buddha Boy,[5] Under the Big Top,[4] and Bearded Lady.[4]

His play Dinner with the Duchess premiered at Toronto's Factory Theatre as part of the 2019 Next Stage Theatre Festival.[8]

In 2020, after a production of his newest play was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Green launched Social Distancing Festival, a website where arts professionals can share works online.[9]

In 2023 his play Casey and Diana, a dramatization of the 1991 visit of Diana, Princess of Wales to Casey House, Toronto's HIV/AIDS hospice, premiered at the Stratford Festival under the direction of Andrew Kushnir.[10]

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