John Roby composer, lyricist and musical director has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards: George F Walker’s Theatre of the Film Noir (score) and Best Musical for Girls In The Gang (with Raymond Storey).  Collaborations with Storey include Country Chorale, The Dreamland and a musical adaptation of Lulie The Iceberg from the book by the Imperial Princess of Japan, Princess Hisako.  Other plays include: The Old Man’s Band (book and music); Country Hearts (with Ted Johns); the Dora nominated Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (with Mordeca1 Richler).  Film work includes The Hanging Garden and Beefcake (Atlantic Film Festival Award for Best Music Composition).  He has had a long association with CBC, scoring numerous radio dramas.  Highlights include: the musical adaptation (with Kate Lushington) of Josef Skvorecky’s The Bass Saxophone which won The US National Radio Award; The Nightingale (International Radio Festival, Gold Metal) and the CBC/BBC/L.A. Theatre Projects adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.  Recorded work include: Mischief City (with Tim Wynn Jones); Stride (with Doug Riley and Tyler Yarema) which won The Canadian Collector’s Congress Award for best recording of 2005; and For Helen – A Sort Of Requiem, recently recorded by Montreal’s award-winning Ardesco Vocal Ensemble.