Stage
Plays and performances
- New
- Funny Bird · in development
- Signature
- a million billion pieces
a million billion pieces
Young People’s Theatre
When a touch could be a lifeline—or lethal—two sixteen-year-olds dare to tempt fate.
Written with composer Gareth Williams and directed at its Young People’s Theatre premiere by Philip Akin. The production received five Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, including Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Play.
Read the review“Uniquely captures the intensity and anticipation of teenage relationships.”
— Mooney on Theatre
The work
Plays as productions: their premise, collaborators, history, and reception.
01 Funny Bird
A dying seagull and a dying herring talk on a shoreline while the herring plays a crowd of characters from the seagull’s life. The two-performer play moves between storytelling, stand-up rhythm, natural history, and grief.
First Honourable Mention in the 2025 Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition. Presented in Toronto through Warm Company’s live reading series as the play moves toward production.
“A highly original piece, and one where the writer commands attention through strong control of their métier.”
— Ken Gass and Colleen Murphy · Competition judges02 Companion performance · Adam Sherkin at Piano Lunaire, 2023 Room of Keys
A son moves through his late father’s abandoned music shop, where seven keyboards unlock memories and what went unsaid between them. The one-act play leads into a piano recital.
Written for actor-pianist Adam Sherkin, with Bartók’s music and a new composition by Sherkin; directed by Tom Diamond. Premiered at Piano Lunaire’s nanoSTAGE before a Canadian Opera Company Free Concert Series performance.
Read the review“An intriguing, if sometimes rather weird, hour.”
— Opera Ramblings03 
Original production poster · ITSAZOO Productions Wet
A Canadian soldier comes home from Afghanistan to a family that cannot simply resume where it left off. The immersive production placed audiences inside the damage carried between military and domestic life.
Produced by ITSAZOO Productions and directed by Chelsea Haberlin. The play won the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition; the Vancouver production earned three Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations.
Read the production reviewWinner · Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition
— National distinction04 Cook
A compact play first staged as part of Theatre Lab’s You Can Sleep When You’re Dead, a site-responsive collection of work about labour, exhaustion, and mortality.
Published by Playwrights Canada Press in the anthology Long Story Short Plays: The Ten-Minute Play in Canada.
View the anthologyPublished in a national anthology of Canadian short plays.
— Playwrights Canada Press05 
Original image design by Mathew Borrett Centre of the Universe
After catastrophe strikes downtown Toronto, five people are trapped inside a bar. As the city outside becomes unknowable, they reckon with the lives, loyalties, and version of Toronto they may have lost.
A site-responsive ensemble work produced by Theatre Lab in Toronto, extending Brock’s interest in enclosed rooms under impossible pressure.
World premiere · Toronto, 2014
— Theatre Lab06 
Original Toronto production poster Snow Bride
Alone on the night before her wedding, Helena invites the only friend she has left—cocaine—and waits for an intervention that may never come. The addiction story unfolds as a relationship, not a cautionary device.
Written for and performed by Katie Hood. First toured to Canadian festivals as Toasting the Snow Bride, then substantially rebuilt for its 2014 Toronto production.
Read the review“The script is deft, succinct, and precise.”
— The Charlebois Post