Here we go! Our first reading is on Sat. May 14th at 2:00 pm in Stratford ON at SpringWorks Indie Arts Festival. If you’re able to join us to hear this play-in-development, it would be super to see you. Featuring Lally Cadeau, Kim Horsman and Ngabo Nabea. A super team! I’m absolutely delighted to have this wonderful cast reading the...
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February is writing month! At the moment one of the projects I’m working on is a theatre adaptation a Canadian film, For the Moment, (screenplay by Aaron K Johnston). Set in Manitoba in 1942, it chronicles the romance between Lill and Lachlan. She’s a nice married girl from the prairies, he’s an Australian training in Manitoba with the...
Read MoreA Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Heather Davies at Theatre North West, Nov/Dec 2015 Fred: But, dear Uncle, what’s never been revealed is how you came to join us that fateful Christmas Day. Uncle Scrooge: It haunts me still… Adapting and directing this classic novel was a real joy. I have loved this novel since I was a child, so I was...
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It’s been a busy few months, for which I’m very thankful! This week I finished directing 38 emerging musical theatre people @StClairCollege in Oklahoma! It was the first musical to add an exclamation mark to its title and I’m adding an exclamation mark to the whole experience of working with these students! It was a delight to direct them...
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It’s been a long time since I wrote here… There will be news soon. Until then though, I can say that it’s been a busy and productive time since I last...
Read MoreCymbeline, Stratford Festival
Here at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, it’s been a busy and wonderful few months. I’ve been working on a production of Cymbeline with Antoni Cimolino (as his assistant director). Shifting into assistant directing mode was an adjustment, particularly after directing Cinderella at The Grand, (20 peeps in the cast and lots of fun technical...
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