Justin Neal(V)
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Justin Neal juggled day jobs and amateur theatre in San Francisco and New York until he moved to his family's traditional Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territory to earn a joint MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia in 2015. His play So Damn Proud premiered in Vancouver in 2021. His feature The Skins Game is in development with Curiosity Pictures and Really Real Films. Neal's original series for television, Boundary Bay, and his feature, The Traveller, have received development funding through the Indigenous Screen Office and Creative BC. The latter script was first drafted as a stage play through Arts Club Theatre Company's Emerging Playwrights Unit. His pilot Hole in the Donut was a 2020 WeScreenplay (LA) TV Writing Finalist. Neal is a resident of the Norman Jewison Film Program Writers' Lab at the Canadian Film Centre (2022).