Joel Thomas Hynes

Joel Thomas Hynes is a multi-disciplinary artist (screenwriter, novelist, actor, filmmaker and musician), from Newfoundland, Canada. He is the creator, lead actor and an executive producer on the critically acclaimed CBC comedy series Little Dog. Hynes is the author of numerous novels, stage-plays and works of non-fiction. His most recent novel "We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night", won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, The BMO Winterset Award, the NLB Award for Fiction, and long-listed for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. Joel Thomas Hynes has been working creatively in the film and television industry since his early twenties and is known for both comedy and drama, usually playing darker, bad boy roles - social misfits, outcasts, criminals, rock-and-rollers and all round irreverent characters. He has written and directed two award-winning short films and recently won the Michael Weir Award for Best Atlantic Screenwriter for the acclaimed feature Cast No Shadow, in which he