Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Anusree Roy (born 1982 in Kolkata, India) is a playwright, actor and librettist.Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17, and studied theatre at York University and the University of Toronto. 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. She has premiered two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy.She has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and is co-artistic director with Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy.. }
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- Anusree_Roy abstract "Anusree Roy (born 1982 in Kolkata, India) is a playwright, actor and librettist.Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17, and studied theatre at York University and the University of Toronto. 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. She has premiered two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy.She has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and is co-artistic director with Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy.".