Michael John Hollingsworth (born February 5, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, theatre director and experimental multimedia artist.
[2] Born in Swansea, Wales, Hollingsworth moved to Toronto, Ontario with his family at the age of six.
[2] In 1976, he collaborated with Deanne Taylor to launch VideoCabaret, an experimental theatre company which was one of the first in Canada to integrate multimedia techniques such as video and live music.
[2] Early shows produced by VideoCabaret included Taylor's The Patty Rehearst Story, The Bible As Told to Karen Ann Quinlan, Nympho Warrior and Where's Fluffy, Hollingsworth's Punc Rok and Electric Eye, and adaptations of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.
[2] These two shows each consisted of four distinct one-act plays dramatizing individual personalities from the eras, while later plays in the series — The Mackenzie Papineau Rebellion, Confederation, The Red River Rebellion, Canadian Pacific Scandal, The Saskatchewan Rebellion, Laurier, The Great War, The Life and Times of Mackenzie King, WWII, The Cold War, Trudeau & the FLQ, Trudeau & the PQ and The Life and Times of Brian Mulroney — have each been standalone works.