CV

Writing Credits: Film/Television/Radio/Stage

• Speakers Corner — Stephen Alix/Moxie Movie Corp.
• Exes and Ah-Ohs — Byron McKim/Turtle Island Productions
• One Night Stand — Alan Collins/Alpha Nova Productions

screenplays previously or currently optioned and/or in development

• Hangin' In
• CBC-TV
• Dayshift
• CBC-RADIO

Story ideas — produced

• Special comedy material, songs, choreography for industrial/corporate shows

Published Works

• author/performer profiles/CANSCAIP and Pembroke Publishers
• miscellaneous poetry and columns/The Instant Anthology; Ontario Folkdancer; Pandemonium; Pierian Spring

Related Professional Work

Interactive Workshop Developer/Coordinator/Leader:

• MinuteMovie1-2-3 screenwriting workshop for children aged 8-11; 12-15
• Toronto Reference Library’s 2003 Screenwriting Workshop
• "Laugh Till It Hurts" comedy workshop for teens and pre-teens
• "Straight Talk" dialogue workshops for high school, ESL
• "Page to Screen: multi-disciplined writers workshop" (TPL)

Founding/Contributing Member: First Draft

Writer-based co-operative of monthly, non-juried staged readings

Grants/Awards

• Finalist in the 2002 One in Ten Screenplay Contest — Eye Candy
• Toronto Arts Council 2000 Writer’s Grant — Reality Check!
• The Harold Greenberg Fund 2000 Writer’s Grant — Minor Miracles

Education

• BFA: Film and Creative Writing/York University
• BA: English and Canadian Studies/York University

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde