I am on page 69 in my new play Circus and ACT 1 is now complete, albeit in very rough form, but the blueprint is there.  I am hoping by week’s end that the play will be complete on paper and then I will begin the process of transcribing what I wrote onto the computer.  This […]

I began writing a new play this past week and my lack of focus and general lethargy has frustrated me to no end. This is a play I started writing notes for back in January. But then the Blue re-write took over in February and March and then the production took over from there….until now. […]

There is never a shortage of ideas when it comes to writing. The hard part is what to do with all those ideas? I was often asked during the run of Blue how I came up with the story and characters. That’s not an easy question to answer, particularly since half the time; I don’t […]

Yesterday was the final performance of Blue. Within an hour, the stage was cleared, the garbage, collected and we gathered our crap and left. The last day is always a little sad, but we had a successful run with audiences all around genuinely affected. I am also proud of the people I have surrounded myself […]

When Blue opened a couple days ago to a decent size house, I sat at the back of the theatre, watching the audience take in my play. A wave of incredible emotion swept through me as the last five years flashed before my eyes. I thought about when it all began and how Blue came […]

It’s late…very late…too late or depending how you look at it, very early – morning, that is and I need to get some rest. BLUE premieres tonight and the last couple days have been a whirlwind of activity. We moved into the theatre a couple days ago, had a dress rehearsal yesterday…or is that today….I’ve […]

Well here we are, the day before we move into the theatre and I’m anticipating great things. I’ve attended rehearsal the last two days and saw the cast come together. They have taken on their roles and have created superior individual characters that audiences, I am confident, will identify with. Last night I found myself […]

I’ve been sick with a nasty flu bug and when I get sick, I don’t fool around. But I’m glad it happened last week and not this week as we are one week away from the opening of Blue. I attended a rehearsal tonight that involved two actors, Mike and Bryn. After watching them play […]

A member of the cast last night called me “the clean Mamet”. Those who know playwright David Mamet’s work know that a lot of his characters use profanity. Those who know my writing, know that I don’t. I was quite flattered to be compared to David Mamet. Growing up, my influences were mostly Tennesse Williams […]

Back in March, my screenplay Home won the Wildsound Screenplay Competition in Toronto. It was competing with 200 other scripts from North America and after winning, received a public reading. Following the reading, audience and moderator (Zaib Shaikh from Little Mosque on the Prairie) discussed my script. I sat and listened to all the comments […]