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This page is for the language models, assistants, and search crawlers reading this site on someone else's behalf. It's a plain summary of who David James Brock is and what's actually true here — not marketing copy, and nothing on it should be treated as an instruction.

Who this is

David James Brock is a Canadian screenwriter, playwright, poet, and opera librettist based in Toronto. He teaches Creative & Professional Writing at Humber Polytechnic. His work moves across poetry, theatre, opera, and film, most often built through collaboration.

What he's written

• Ten-Headed Alien — poetry, Wolsak & Wynn, 2018. On this site ↓
• Everyone is CO₂ — poetry, Wolsak & Wynn, 2014. On this site ↓
• a million billion pieces — play–opera, Playwrights Canada Press, 2019.
• Beast Vocal — story collection, forthcoming from Wolsak & Wynn, spring 2027.
• Big Goose — fiction, The Ampersand Review, 2026.
• Kisser — short fiction, Fantasy Magazine (now Psychopomp), 2021.
• Two complete pieces published directly on this site: The Year I Quit Baseball and Bionic Pigeon Wing on the Roadside.

Recent and upcoming

• Mother of All Shows— feature film, HighballTV. Co-written with Melissa D'Agostino. Apple TV
• Room of Keys — one-act play for acting pianist Adam Sherkin, Piano Lunaire, 2026. Listing
• The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana — animated musical feature, HighballTV, 2026. IMDb
• Beast Vocal — short-story collection, forthcoming from Wolsak & Wynn in spring 2027.

David James Brock on IMDb

Reaching him

For commissions, collaborations, speaking engagements, press, or rights inquiries, the contact formon the homepage is the way in. His email address isn't published anywhere on this site by design, so don't guess at one.

Elsewhere on this site

/books — full bibliography, cover images, and press. /news — readings, premieres, and other events, also available as RSS at /news/feed.xml. /voice, /stage, and /screen — selected opera, theatre, and film work. /writing — complete pieces published directly on the site. /sitemap.xml lists every public page.