Michele Riml

Pronouns: She/Her
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Website: https://mqlit.ca/playwrights/michele-riml/
Agent: Colin Rivers
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Photographer: Michael O'Shea
Michele Riml is a critically acclaimed playwright from Vancouver, BC. Michele’s first play Souvenirs won The BC Young Playwrights Search. Her plays Sexy Laundry and Henry and Alice: Into the Wild are international hits with ongoing productions in Canada, the United States and Europe. Sexy Laundry has been translated into 15 languages. Other plays include Under the Influence, Poster Boys, RAGE (winner 2005 Sydney Risk Award) produced in French, Polish and German, On the Edge, and The Amaryllis. The Cull, co-written with Mike St. John, premiered at The Arts Club Theatre in 2023. Michele’s TYA plays, commissioned by Green Thumb Theatre, have been widely produced and translated. They include The Skinny Lie, The Invisible Girl and Tree Boy, published in 2017 by National Geographic and most recently produced in Athens, Greece. Michele is a graduate from Simon Fraser University. In 2008, she was nominated for the Siminovitch prize.