Michael Kras (he/him) is a Hamilton-based playwright, director, performer, magician, and teaching artist focused on writing vital new-generation stories including the Voaden Prize-winning play The Team (Essential Collective Theatre/Theatre Aquarius), No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre), finsta (Boca del Lupo), and The Year and Two of Us Back Here (Broken Soil Theatre). Michael is also an in-demand magic director & designer, with credits including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (resident magic associate, Mirvish), The Extinction Therapist (magic director, Theatre Aquarius), and A Christmas Carol (illusion design associate, Florida’s Maltz Jupiter Theatre).