Hair Her hit play and television series, 'Da Kink in My Hair, has received tremendous critical acclaim, and was named one of the top ten plays in Canadian theatrical history and the winner of four NAACP and received several Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Originally set as a one woman show, 'Da Kink documents the lives of women in a Caribbean style Jamaican hair salon in Toronto. Starting out at the Toronto French Festival in 2001 'Da Kink has been produced in California, New York, London, and was the first Canadian play to be produced at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Anthony is the first Black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show on a major prime time Canadian network. A television series version of 'Da Kink in My Hair began airing in 2007 and Anthony was a cast member before the show was cancelled in 2009. 'Da Kink in my Hair is currently touring again in Canada. Trey Anthony Studios Trey Anthony Studios was founded by Anthony with the mission to "produce television and theater for urban audiences." It has produced and continuous to produce Anthony's works and has also produced Secrets of a Black Boy, a play written by her brother Darren. Selected works 'Da Kink in my Hair I Am Not a Dinner Mint, The Crap Women Swallow to Stay in a Relationship! How Black Mothers Say I Love You Black Girl in Love (with Herself) Awards Eve Ensler Vagina Warrior Award 2005 NAACP Theatre Award 2007 Gemini Award 2008 Harry Jerome Award 2009 Egale Canada – Queering Black History Award 2009 References External links , for Trey Anthony Studios 1974 births Living people Black Canadian actresses Black Canadian writers Canadian women comedians Canadian women dramatists and playwrights British emigrants to Canada Canadian people of Jamaican descent Canadian lesbian actresses Lesbian comedians Canadian LGBT dramatists and playwrights Canadian lesbian writers Lesbian dramatists and playwrights Canadian expatriates in the United States 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian women writers Black Canadian LGBT people Canadian LGBT comedians