[4] His early plays included Dog Day (1989),[5] Falling Back Home (1990)[6] End of the World Romance (1991),[7] 1492 (1992),[8] District of Centuries (1995),[9] Billy Nothin' (1999),[10] and The Epic Period (2001).
[11] He received Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Best Original Play, Independent Theatre in 1993 for 1492,[12] and Best Original Play, General Theatre in 2014 for A God in Need of Help.
[13] His subsequent plays have included The Wilberforce Hotel (2015)[14] and The Orange Dot (2017).
[15] He has also published two fantasy novels for young readers, The Feathered Cloak (2007)[16] and The Winter Drey (2009),[17] and the adult novels The Girls Who Saw Everything (2007)[18] The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn (2011)[19] and The Abduction of Seven Forgers (2023).
[20] He lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is married to documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek.