Joel Thomas Hynes

Joel Thomas Hynes
Hynes at the 2014 Cineplex Entertainment Film Program
Born	1976 Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador
Occupation	novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor
Nationality	Canadian
Notable works	Down to the Dirt, Cast No Shadow
Years active	2000s-present
Children	Percy Hynes-White

Joel Thomas Hynes (born 1976 in Calvert, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, director, musician and actor. He may be credited as Joel Thomas Hynes or as Joel Hynes when acting, but is always credited as Joel Thomas Hynes as a writer.

His debut novel Down to the Dirt won the Percy Janes First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Award and the Winterset Award, and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the ReLit Award. The novel has been translated into numerous international languages and was subsequently adapted into the film Down to the Dirt, in which Hynes also played the lead role.

The follow up to Down to the Dirt was the novel Right Away Monday, also available with Harper Collins Publishers.

Hynes has also performed numerous lead and leading roles for television, film and theatre. His credits include the television series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching (for which he was also a writer), as well as the films Rabbittown, Crackie, The Con Artist, Messiah from Montreal, The Sparky Book, Ashore and numerous others.

Hynes was named Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council in 2008, has received the Lawrence Jackson Writer's Award, the Summerwork's Theatre Festival's Contra Guys Award, and most recently won the coveted Cuffer Prize. He has also played recurring characters on Republic of Doyle, Orphan Black, Mary Kills People and Frontier.