Writing + Screenwriting (Published/Produced)
PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES
2023 | Litbreak Magazine, March 27th, 2023
Title: Dealership
2022 | Right Hand Pointing Issue #147
Title: In Medias Res
2022 | Calgary Guardian | Theatre and Film Reviews
Death, Comedy and Friendship: One Yellow Rabbit’s Gilgamesh Lazyboy
The Muse and the Minotaur: A Review of Dora Maar: The Wicked One
Of Oil and Men: A Film Review of February’s Dog
Crime, Comedy and Choreography: A Review of Vertigo Theatre’s Clue
Hardships of Temporary Foreign Workers: A Review of Parts & Labour
A Review of Hamilton: A History Lesson Sung and Danced
Calgary Fringe Festival Offers Wide Opportunities for Entertainment
Men, Wolves, and Pink Overalls: A Review of Horseface with Alex Dallas at Calgary Fringe
Beauty and Gore: A Film Review of Prey
Storybook Theatre Shows Off Student Talent with Legally Blonde
Something Comically Wicked This Way Comes: A Review of Goblin Macbeth
2011-2012 | Capital and Main | Pieces written and published
After the Storm: A Hyatt Worker Returns to Work
Unite Here and Occupy L.A.: A Mash Up
Words With Friends: A Striker’s Personal Fallout
An American Waiter: Reaching the Tipping Point in L.A.
Hippocratic Oath or Oath of Hypocrisy?
My Mother-n-Law’s Wal-Mart Moment
Did Newt Gingrich Ignore a Hyatt Boycott?
Big Brother is a Company Called Hyatt
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Facebook: Doomed Rights?
Left-Wing Nut Jobs- A Canvassers Tale
Birther Smackdown: Obama and Shakespeare
Netroots Run Deep At Conference
Hyatt Worker: Why I support the Global Hyatt Boycott
2012 | Truthdig
Waiting on the Wealth Hoarders
PRODUCED FILMS
Occupying Ed | Future Cowboy Productions |
PRODUCED PLAYS
2023| Love’s Heavy Burden | Produced by the Shakespeare Company, Calgary, AB, Canada
2023| Blue-Eyed Hag | Produced by ACES Educational Center for The Arts, New Haven, CT, USA
2022-2023| Blue-Eyed Hag | Produced by The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, Grand Haven, MI, USA
Staged Readings and Table/Zoom Reads
2024| Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
2019| Malvolio’s Twin | Alberta Playwright’s Network, Calgary, AB, Canada
2025| The Divorce Ceremony | Theatre Alliance, Washington, D.C., USA
UNPRODUCED PLAYS
Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
Malvolio’s Twin
The Divorce Ceremony
UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAYS
Winterpeg
4 Stages of Beth
Starfish
UNPUBLISHED WRITING
A Permanent Part of The Dog | Novella
This Van is a Dream Factory | Novel
Directing
Love’s Heavy Burden
2023 | The Shakespeare Company, AB, CA
Acting
2023 | The Shakespeare Company, AB, CA
Love’s Heavy Burden
Role: The Prince/Forgetti/Apothecary
Director: Jim Lair Beard
2021 | Scorpio Theatre, AB, CA
Ungentlemanly Warfare
Role: Major Kaufman
Director: Colleen Bishop
2019 | Winsport, AB, CA
The Storm: A Chaine Dinner Multimodal Event
Role: The Storyteller
Director: Liana Robberecht
2006 | Capital Fringe Festival, Washington D.C.
Mammas, Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow up To Be Actors, by James Beard
Role: Jim
Director: Colin Hovde
2005 | Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Much Ado about Nothing, by William Shakespeare
Role: Conrad, Friar Francis/ *Don Pedro u/s performed
Director: Nick Hutchison
2004 | American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
Role: Bottom
Director: Jim Warren
2004 | American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Role: Antonio
Director: Murray Ross
2004 | American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
Falstaff, a conflation of Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, by William Shakespeare
Role: Bardolph
Director: Ralph Cohen
2003 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare
Role: Proteus
Director: Fred Nelson
2003 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
Henry IV, part I, by William Shakespeare
Role: King Henry
Director: Jim Warren
2003 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Role: Algernon
Director: Nick Hutchison
2003 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Role: Bob Cratchit
Director: Dennis Henry
2002 | Spotlight Theatre, Bakersfield, Ca
From the Cattle Ranch, by James Beard
Role: Jim
Director: Brian Sivesend
2002 | Spotlight Theatre, Bakersfield, Ca
King Lear, by William Shakespeare
Role: Edmund
Director: Emily Thiroux
2000-2001 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
Twelfth Night, By William Shakespeare
Role: Sir Toby Belch
Director: Ralph Cohen
2000-2001 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
Othello, by William Shakespeare
Role: Montano
Director: Jan Powell
2000-2001 | Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, VA
The Roaring Girl, by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
Role: Sebastian
Director: Jim Warren
1997-1998 | Stella Adler Theatre, NYC
*Defined
Role: Two
Director: Tia Hodge
1995 | Stars Dinner Theatre, Bakersfield, CA
Greetings, by Tom Dudzick
Role: Mickey/Lucius
Director: Jon Johannsen
1994 | Bakersfield Civic Light Opera, Bakersfield, CA
A Chorus Line, by Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban
Role: Bobby
Director: Ron Biglin
1994 | O’Neill Theatre, Bakersfield, CA
A Little Shop of Horrors, by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
Role: The Dentist
Director: Larry Orr
Awards + Recognitions + Screenings
2024-25
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
$27,000.00
2023-24
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES)
11,000.00
2019
A.T.J. Cairns Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
2,800.00
2014-15
Occupying Ed Film Festival International Screenings:
Raindance, London, U.K.
Perlen, Hannover, Germany
Shout, Alabama, U.S.
XIII Festival Int’l de Cine Pobre, Baja, Mexico
Kashish, Mumbai International Queer Film Festival|
OM Film Festival, Missouri, U.S.
2013
Nicholl Fellowship
Quarterfinalist
Script: Occupying Ed
2012
Nicholl Fellowship
Quarterfinalist
Script: Occupying Ed
16 People and Organizations Changing the World in 2012
Recognized by Craig Newmark of Craigslist
Memberships
2021-Current
Playwrights Guild of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
2018-Current
Alberta Playwrights Network, Calgary, AB
2012-Current
Writers Boot Camp, Los Angeles, CA
Education
University of Calgary (MA)
2024-2025 (In process)
University of Calgary (BA)
2018-2023) (Graduated 2024)
Capilano University (Transferred)
2016-2018
Stella Adler Acting Conservatory, NYC
1996-1998