Michael Ross Albert

Michael Ross Albert

Michael Ross Albert is a Toronto-based playwright whose work has been performed across Canada and the United States, and in the United Kingdom. His two most recent plays, The Huns and Anywhere were produced as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019 and 2018, respectively. Both plays were named Patron’s Pick of their respective theatres, and both were selected for remounts in the Best of Fringe Festival....
Michael Ross Albert is a Toronto-based playwright whose work has been performed across Canada and the United States, and in the United Kingdom. His two most recent plays, The Huns and Anywhere were produced as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019 and 2018, respectively. Both plays were named Patron’s Pick of their respective theatres, and both were selected for remounts in the Best of Fringe Festival. Michael debuted five new works in the New York International Fringe Festival, including Miss (Unit 102 Actors Company), and The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (published in “Best American Short Plays 2014-2015”) which received its Canadian premiere in the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. In association with the Storefront Theatre, Michael produced the sold-out world premiere of his play, Tough Jews (Dora Award nomination; My Entertainment Critics’ Choice Award winner – Outstanding New Play). His new musical adaptation of The Jazz Singer was commissioned and produced by Dancap and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in 2017. Michael received an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School. He’s been honoured to teach new play development as an instructor of record at the University of Waterloo.

Plays

  • The Huns
    The morning after a break-in at a tech company, three co-workers assemble for a conference call to discuss the burglary.

    What starts as a civilized, professional meeting swiftly devolves into a brutal showdown that puts everyone’s careers -- and their hopes for future happiness-- in jeopardy.

    A menacing, new workplace comedy about millennial anxieties, minor revolutions, and modern-day barbarians.
  • Anywhere
    A young businesswoman returns to her AirBnB to find that her host has been waiting up for her. What started as a cordial relationship between strangers begins to steadily escalate into a tense and unnerving battle for control.

    Two women face off against each other in a struggle for meaning, connection, and power in this new thriller that questions how we can genuinely connect in a cynical, digital age.
  • Miss
    A shocking accident at a private boarding school irrevocably changes the lives of a teacher, her fiancé, and a troubled student. A taut and explosive new drama about loss, grief, guilt, and revenge.
  • Tough Jews
    Set in Toronto’s crime-filled neighbourhood of Prohibition-era Kensington Market against the backdrop of the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, and the biggest race riot in Canadian history, a family of would-be gangsters try to support themselves by running a speakeasy out of their domineering mother’s basement. When a murder is committed and a job goes wrong, the family is suddenly flung into the high-...
    Set in Toronto’s crime-filled neighbourhood of Prohibition-era Kensington Market against the backdrop of the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, and the biggest race riot in Canadian history, a family of would-be gangsters try to support themselves by running a speakeasy out of their domineering mother’s basement. When a murder is committed and a job goes wrong, the family is suddenly flung into the high-stakes American gangland world of Al Capone and Detroit’s Infamous Purple Gang.