In 2008 he became Teatro's resident playwright, working on his own original comedies and mentoring the troupe's new writers at Old Strathcona's Varscona Theatre.
He is the winner of 9 Sterling Awards[1] for The Glittering Heart (1990), The Book of Tobit (1993), The Noon Witch (1995), Pith (1998), At the Zenith of the Empire (2006), The Oculist's Holiday (2009), Witness to a Conga (2010), Cause and Effect and Marvelous Pilgrims (2013), and A Lesson in Brio (2018).
He received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas (1986).
He won the New York International Fringe Festival’s Award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting for the remount of Pith!
He received the Tommy Bank Performing Arts Award from the Province of Alberta in 2008, and in 2010 he was inducted into the City of Edmonton's Cultural Hall of Fame.