Director
Actor in fifty professional stage productions in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto (including leads in Amadeus, Children of a Lesser God, Torch Song Trilogy, Hamlet). Stage Director of over a hundred professional stage productions in Canada and the U.S. (including Art, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, Sweeney Todd) and operas, (including Susannah, Barber of Seville, Macbeth)
12 seasons as stage director with Shaw Festival in Canada – (including productions of Sweet Charity, Doctor’s Dilemma, You Never Can Tell)
4 seasons as stage director at Stratford Festival in Canada – (directing productions of his own work, Frankenstein Revived, Moby Dick, The Trespassers, Wanderlust)
Director of T.V. (CBC’s DaVinci’s Inquest and Prix Italia finalist for The Overcoat)
Writer of 40 stage plays, including adaptations of Ibsen’s Ghosts, Feydeau’s L’Hotel du libre echange, Gogol’s The Overcoat, and original works including Vigil (to date with 75 productions worldwide and translated into 25 languages) 7 Stories, The Ends of the Earth, Earshot, The Dishwashers.
Awards and Honours
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Vancouver – fourteen-time recipient in writing, acting and directing
Dora Mavor Moore Award, Toronto – four-time recipient in writing and directing
Governor General Literary Award – Drama, Canada – twice recipient for The Ends of the Earth (1994), and Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
Honourary Lifetime Member – Playwrights Guild of Canada (2017)