Helen Ho is a writer & artist from Toronto who prefers to go by her full name. She is currently attending the Playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada (2025-2028).
Her play, Maggie Chun’s First Love & Last Wedding, came in first place for the Toronto Fringe’s New Play Competition (2023) and first place for the UofT Spotlight Playwriting Competition (2022). She was a runner-up for Tarragon Theatre’s Ellen Ross Stuart Award (2024). She was also a member of the Driftwood Theatre’s Beyond-the-Bard program (2022), the First Born Theatre’s Playwriting Roundtable (2025), and a performer in the Queer Youth Cabaret at Soulpepper (2025).
She is most interested in writing about: absurdism, love stories, things with “outsized quirk”, young people, and social/cultural issues that scare/fascinate her.
Other things she loves: watching movies, the city of Toronto, walking around outside, eavesdropping, birthday cake, and nicknames (for other people).
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Contact her here.
photo by Barry McCluskey, 2025.
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