Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre—one of the world’s largest gay and lesbian theatres—from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 10 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Pauline McGibbon Award, and The Silver Ticket Award. There is a street in Toronto named after him: ‘Sky Gilbert Lane.’ His latest published novel is The Blue House (Cormorant, 2025). He is presently working on his tenth novel, as well as a new one act play to be performed at Théâtre Sainte-Catherine in Montreal in May, starring Gavin Crawford (Witness for the Persecution). His third book about Shakespeare—Shakespeare’s Effeminacy (which deals with Shakespeare’s work in the context of sexuality)—is being published by Edward Everett Root Co. Ltd. in England in May, 2026.