After a great summer in Newfoundland (including a lot of fun as the villain in the Folk Opera "The Nobleman's Wedding") as well as a reading of one of my new plays, I've been back in Toronto for a little more than a week. And now... headed to New Mexico to research the next piece! [...]
It's been two years since I've been back, so when the offer came to spend another summer with the folks at Rising Tide Theatre in Trinity Newfoundland, I jumped at the opportunity. There are few places in the world where you can perform in great theatre and see icebergs, eagles, and whales, and I've had [...]
Just this weekend, Smile Theatre finished performing the two month tour of the new musical I'd written specifically for them, "Remember that Song?". The creation of the show was something new for me. Along with my friend Toni MacRae, we decided to go to a local Senior's home and interview Residents about memories in their [...]
Had a chance to catch the updated version of Forte Theatre's Naughty But Nice at Lunchbox Theatre while home for the holidays. This new show has a bunch of new tunes to add to last years, including a new one that I've penned "Thank you Christians" where a Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, and Atheist thank Christians [...]
It's been a great year of writing with the Thousand Islands Playhouse Playwright's unit, which culminated last night with a reading of my new play, A SUMMER IN NEWFOUNDLAND with a group of talented actors directed by Rob Kempson. We had a full audience and had to bring out extra chairs; it turns out there's [...]
So glad to have had the opportunity to workshop the full length version of "Quebec Cowboy, the Ballad of Will James" at the Port Stanley Festival Theatre recently. I had an incredible team, including Music Director Mike Wamsley (who was also our MD on Bingo Ladies), Nathan Carroll, Kelly Holliff, and Duff MacDonald, who all [...]
Wishing my Bingo Ladies and Bingo Caller a great first week of rehearsals in Hudson at the Hudson Village Theatre in Quebec. So happy to have so many wonderful people working on this musical. I would be there but... I'm not needed and at this point I'd only get in the way! Instead, I'll be [...]
Really looking forward to heading to Calgary next week for a workshop of my new musical QUEBEC COWBOY, the Ballad of Will James with Lunchbox Theatre through the Suncor Energy Stage One Festival. James has a fascinating story- born in Quebec in 1892 as Ernest Dufault, he had a natural ability to draw and was obsessed [...]
I am very honoured to be a part of the 2015 Playwrights' Unit at the Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque ON. Myself and three very talented writers (Steven Gallagher, Rose Napoli, and Kaityn Riordan) will be developing our pieces over the next year, with dramaturgy, workshops and a retreat run by the Playhouse. For the [...]
So happy to announce a third production of Bingo Ladies this coming Summer, at the Hudson Village Theatre in Quebec! It's part of really truly amazing season of Canadian Theatre, including Rebecca Northan's Blind Date, Julia Mackey's Jake's Gift, and a production of The Glass Menagerie starring Martha Burns. This production of Bingo Ladies will [...]
