Audrey Dwyer

Audrey Dwyer has been working in theatre and film for nearly twenty years as an actor, writer, director and dramaturge. She has worked throughout Canada and the United States. She starred in the comedy Patty's Cake, which won a Dora Award for Outstanding Children's Production. Recent theatre work includes The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and Mirvish Productions' Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, RMTC's Good People, thirsty at Canada's National Theatre in Ottawa, Mirvish/Studio 180's Clybourne Park and The Overwhelming, Canadian Stage's Dream in High Park - The Tempest, Obsidian Theatre's Black Medea, Mirvish/RMTC's Medea and Second City's Touring Company. Television and film credits include Da Kink in My Hair, The Ron James Show, The State Within, Man of the Year with Robin Williams and Atom Egoyan's Where The Truth Lies. She directed her first opera in 2015 with Unexpectedly Opera. She workshopped Lisa Codrington's The Aftermath at Nightwood Theatre's New Groundswell Festival and then brought the show to the Femfest Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2011, she directed her first play, which was Darrah Teitel's The Apology. It premiered at the Next Stage Festival and she was nominated for Outstanding Direction at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Independent Division). Her first short film, The Cupcake, won Best Story at Ottawa's Digi60 Festival. Her first full-length play called Calpurnia - a satirical comedy on race, class and politics set in Toronto - will be read at The Black Theatre Workshop in Montreal in May 2016. She was a member of the Obsidian Theatre Writer's Unit (2012), then their Development Unit (2013) and then became their Playwright in Residence (2014). The play was well received at Nightwood Theatre's New Groundswell Festival in 2014. In 2008, she was the Associate Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre. She is the 2015 Winner of the Cayle Chernin Awards for Theatre. She is the Artistic Director of Cow Over Moon Theatre. She graduated from The National Theatre School in 2001.