It was performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Mirvish Productions Toronto and was aired, in part, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Bravo Channel.
He piled lumber in a sawmill in northern British Columbia for a summer and spent another cycling around England and France exploring battlefields, serving beer in a pub and picking agricultural crops.
He served as a speechwriter and legislative assistant to cabinet minister George McCague in the Ontario government from 1976-81 at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
With the success of the Wingfield Plays, Dan and his wife Heath made their home at Larkspur Farm in Simcoe County in 1988, where he developed his career as a freelancer and playwright.
His popular magazine columns have been published in Harrowsmith-Country Life, Country Guide, Small Farm Canada, In the Hills, On the Bay, Watershed, and other publications.