I do a lot of things that may seem very different, but I see them all as just part of making a performance in collaboration with other people... usually, although not necessarily, in a theatre. Everything else I'm involved in – publishing books and articles, speaking to students, filing my taxes roughly on time – tends to be related to that.

When I was a child in Bewdley, Ontario (pop. 500), the school library was two small bookshelves in the hallway of my two-room school. So, at the age of twelve, I was thrilled to go to a library in a nearby town which had its own building, with two whole floors! On my very first visit, however, I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed upstairs, to the adult library. Instead, I was to be limited to the children's section: to the kinds of books I felt I'd outgrown along with bedtime stories and perma-scabbed knees. I was so incensed at this insult to my intelligence that I marched right out the door and haven't gone near the place since.

I've come back to loving the stories we share with children, including some of the projects in these pages. Three of my plays were created in while I was Artist-in-Residence with the Blyth Festival or the 4th Line Theatre. Many audiences who have connected deeply with the above material might not share my enthusiasm for My Mother Dog. Some patrons of the theatres I have worked with in fairly conservative rural communities might be as shocked by The Vic as my more urbane friends would be nonplussed by the play with the talking quilt . As you'll see, I'm drawn to a wide spectrum of work, from TYA to NSFW. The production photos should give you a sense of which areas of the site you would like to explore. But it's all me, it's all here, and you are welcome to all of it.