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’s latest published novel is The Blue House (Cormorant, 2025) and his latest non-fiction book is Shakespeare Lied (Guernica, 2024). He is presently working on his tenth novel, as well as a one man play for One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre in Calgary. 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 2026.