writing
one act:
Anagnorisis (Written for 2M)
Jimmy and Leo are two university students madly in lust with each other, going strong into the tenth month of their relationship. Nothing could tear them apart - that is, until a devastating revelation comes to light during one fateful weekend. As their lives are turned upside down, their once lock-tight bond morphs into a raunchy, tragicomic deconstruction of how respectability politics and neoliberalism seeps into our relationships - romantic, familial, and in-between.
- 2021: Development at Queen’s University
Mirror Ball (Written for 2M or more - flexible casting)
An intimate chamber piece and an odyssey all at once, Mirror Ball tells one story - of missed opportunity - belonging to many people, stitching together fragmented generations to examine the shame and loneliness that gay men experience in their attempts to connect with each other. Jumping between radical activists in the 2020s, shakespearean actors in the 1590s, astronauts in the 3000s, and so forth, this at one raucously satirical and mercurially tender play of longing asks how much has truly changed in the fight that we face today.
- 2023: Workshop at House + Body Theatre
• Featuring Breton Lalama, Durae McFarlane, Warren Kang and jonnie lombard
- 2021-2022: Development at Queen’s University
two act:
good boy (Written for 4M)
good boy started growing a tail - a real, actual, non-metaphorical tail - when he was eighteen, but he won’t tell you how. Now, as a regular gay guy in his twenties, he’s got canines: just in time for the divorce of the long-married couple he hooks up with, for his best friend with benefits to call their relationship into question, and for his new therapist to pry his catastrophic past open. Taking the concept of the body keeping the score to it’s extreme, good boy unleashes a pitch black bite on power, trauma, and the difficulty of nurturing intimacy when you have a tail.
- 2025: Development and Workshop at Tarragon Theatre
• Assistant Dramaturgy by jonnie lombard
• Direction by Gregory Prest
• Intimacy Direction by Leslie McBay
• Featuring Justin Eddy, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Thom Nyhuus and Sergio Di Zio
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what’s next:
Overhand/Underhand (Written for 3M, 2W)
When Brian’s estranged mother is institutionalized at the same time as his boyfriend breaks up with him, he and his climate-activist sister Jess move back to their childhood home in Hamilton to take care of their 11 year old brother, Eddie. However, an unsettling discovery leads Brian and Jess to realize just how unequipped they are for the weeks ahead… which may include rescuing Eddie from fascist demonic possession. With unruly incision and urgency, Overhand/Underhand takes a supercharged look at how young boys are radicalized in the disinformation age, queer men's role in dismantling the patriarchy, and the lengths we’d go to to save our loved ones.