Michael Mackenzie (filmmaker)

Michael Mackenzie is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, theatre director, playwright and dramaturge. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian.

He has a Ph.D in the History of Science from L'Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and consultant at the United Nations.

Mackenzie is a writer-in-residence at the 2B Theatre in Halifax and teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal.

His plays have been produced in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Israel, France, Portugal, England, across Quebec, and in Toronto and Vancouver. Productions since 2010 include Frankfurt, Upper Franconia, Prague, Antigonish (Nova Scotia) and Montreal (in English and French productions). His most recent play "Instructions to Any Future Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas" was a finalist for the 4th International STAGE Competition

He has directed for the professional theatre in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and New York City .

He has worked with Robert Lepage on a number of occasions, starting as dramaturge for 'Elseneur' in 1997 and most recently on the English translation/adaptation of Lepage's 'Dragon Bleu'. Michael was dramaturge for the Cirque du Soleil show Ka, directed by Lepage and playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

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