WORKSHOPS AND ASSISTANT DIRECTING
Tarragon Theatre Directing Course 2009 (Richard Rose), Toronto – Howard Barker's The Possibilities
Island Theatre's Directors' Master Class (Paul Meade), 2007, Limerick, Ireland
Soulpepper's Directors' Intensive 2006 (Joseph Ziegler) – August Strindberg's Miss Julie
Soulpepper's Directors' Lab 2005 (Joseph Ziegler) – Harold Pinter's Betrayal
Assistant to Director Bernard Hopkins – Grand Theatre – Peter Desbarats' A Practical Joke
Assistant Director, with Allan MacInnis – Grand Theatre – Carl Sternheim/CP Taylor's Schippel the Plumber

NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Best Director, Brickenden Awards for Theatre in London, 2003 ( Problem Child )
Best Director nomination, Brickenden Awards for Theatre in London, 2002 ( Her Worship )
Best Director nomination, Brickenden Awards for Theatre in London, 2004 ( Juno and the Paycock )
Innovation Award, Victoria Fringe Festival ( Boat Load )

Co-ordinator and Director, PlayWrights Cabaret
Grand Theatre, London Ontario, 2002-2009

The PlayWrights Cabaret is The Grand Theatre's project for developing local playwrights and scripts. It has
five components: 1) presenting staged readings of ten-minute scripts (twenty per year), 2) offering dramaturgy of longer works by participating playwrights 3) commissioning and workshopping longer works, 4) producing commissioned works and 5) offering workshops to playwrights in writing, script development and self-producing.

My duties have been:
•  Co-ordinating the project for seven years

•  Selecting plays, in association with Grand Theatre AD Susan Ferley, communicating with playwrights and arranging workshops.

•  Directing between 8 and 16 scripts each year.

•  Working on detailed dramaturgy for longer works (usually with Gil Garratt, Blyth Festival)

•  Working on script development for the commissioned works and directing public readings

•  Assistant Director under Bernard Hopkins for full production of commissioned work

•  For the PlayWrights Cabaret, I worked closely over the years with Susan Ferley (AD, Grand Theatre), Gil Garratt (Associate AD, Blyth Festival) and Rona Waddington (AD, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Calgary's Lunchbox Theatre and Drayton Entertainment).

Experience with full productions of new plays

•  As director/dramaturge – thirteen new plays, by James Reaney, Peter Desbarats, Christopher Doty, Jayson McDonald, Jason Rip, Marion Johnson, Tim Culbert and Jeff Culbert•  As actor – ten new plays, by Herman Goodden, Jason Rip, Rod Keith, Jayson McDonald, and Joshua Richardson.

•  As playwright – Running Rude (Ausable Theatre), There's a Monster that Lives in my Girlfriend (commissioned by The Arts Project, London Ontario), Socrates on Wheels (co-written with Jill Sweetin, Fringe Festival tour), My Fighting Spirit (commissioned by Theatre Nemesis) Other Related Experience

•  Artistic Director - I was the founding AD of Ausable Theatre, based in London, and we produced at least one world premiere per year between 1998 and 2003. We produced 21 plays overall, and as AD, I had to consider all aspects of presenting them, taking my experience of dramaturgy into the broader sense of the word.

• Facilitator – I conduct workshops on script analysis for actors, directors and playwrights, including a workshop in Limerick, Ireland supported by the Canada Council..

•  Consultant, workshop participant - I give regular feedback to playwrights who consult me about their work, and I have done countless workshops of new scripts as a director, dramaturge and actor. I have also helped to develop radio plays (CHRW-FM in London).

•  Editor – Ballyhoo 2001, Plays from London Ontario . I received a grant and published a book of ten plays by Londoners, to encourage further productions and to leave them on public record for posterity.

•  Editor – I founded and for six years managed a website called Theatre in London, www.theatreinlondon.ca, which has listings, reviews and commentary on the local theatre scene.

•  Writer – I wrote a weekly theatre column for The Londoner for over three years, with commentary and reviews, and I always emphasized new plays. I have also written on theatre for Artscape Magazine.