Evan Placey is a Canadian UK-based playwright.

His play Mother of Him is being produced at the Courtyard Theatre from June 2-July 4, 2010, directed by Guy Retallack and starring Madeleine Potter. Mother of Him won this year's King's Cross Award for New Writing (UK) and won Canada's Under 30 National Playwriting Competition. It was also shortlisted for the Rod Hall Memorial Award (Rod Hall/Paines Plough). It previously had a reading at ATC directed by Tessa Walker, and a reading at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto as part of the theatre's annual Playreading Week.

Other work includes: Phone Play (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Dinner on the Fourteenth Floor (Harbourfront Centre for the Arts, Canada & Orange Tree Theatre, Seoul, South Korea); RainbowBright23 (Rough Cuts Festival, Royal Court Theatre); Twelve (Daring Pairings Festival, Hampstead Theatre/ Factory Theatre); Struck by Love/Train (Box of Tricks/Theatre 503); Re:Generation – a community play (Montage Theatre Arts);

Evan's play Snow Falls on the Oublie Trees was shortlisted for Metamorphosis08 at the Churchill Theatre. He was a mentored Emerging Writer with Diaspora Dialogues in Toronto and his poetry was subsequently published in the book TOK 2: Writing the New Toronto.

Currently in development: Borders (which had a staged reading at the Hampstead Theatre); Pulse, with the support of Paines Plough and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation; Plays Well with Others, which is in development with the Glasgay Festival, and will have a reading at the Citizens Theatre in June 2010; True Love Waits, which Evan has written in collaboration with two other writers and will have its first performance at the Pulse Festival in June 2010; and two short plays for Terror Tales, being performed by Oxford School of Drama final-year students at the Hampstead Theatre.

Evan is currently under commission with the Hampstead Theatre writing a new play for 14-18 year-olds in the heat&light company, to be performed in December 2010.

Evan graduated with a BA (first-class honours) from McGill University, where he was awarded both the Clark Lewis Prize for Playwriting and the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing, followed by an MA with Distinction in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. After finishing the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre, he was invited into their Invitation Writers Group, where he wrote Dyspr@x[sic], which he is continuing to develop. He was also invited onto the advanced playwrights’ programme at RADA, taught by Stephen Jeffreys.

Evan also runs playwriting and theatre outreach projects for young people and adults, for various theatres across London.

Evan is represented by Tanya Tillett.