Background
He was born in Toronto, Ontario on 7 February 1967, grew up in Pickering and Toronto, and attended Queen"s University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Music.
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He then studied directing as an intern at Playwright"s Horizons, in New York City, and was a senior member of the BMI musical theatre workshop, first under Lehman Engel, then Maury Yeston.
Career
He can be heard on the original-cast recording of Anne of Green Gables – The Musical, as Gilbert Blythe, a role he performed for three years, as well as creating the awarding winning musical Sleeping Arrangements, which premiered at the Charlottetown Festival and ran for three years. He founded Theatreworks in London, England in the 1990s. He has also done corporate work as a writer/director with Coca-Cola worldwide, Jaguar and Samsung.
He is the creator of the musical Raindogs, which was featured at the MAD Fringe Festival at the Trafalgar Studios in August 2008.
Subsequently it was showcased at the Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor New York and most recently by Theatre20 and Sheridan College in Toronto, 2012, and in Los Angeles, November 2013. lieutenant features additional music by Paul Chant and Boko Suzuki.
As a freelance director, he directs plays and musicals: in 2007, he directed a 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story, and directed The Sound of Music with a London cast taken to Cyprus. In 2008, he worked with William Finn directing the West End premiere of Finn"s Make Maine a Song, featuring West End stars Sally Ann Triplett, Frances Ruffelle, Simon Thomas, Gareth Snook, Louise Dearman, and Ian H. Watkins.
In 2009, he created a new "Cirque du Soleil" version of CATS, for large amphitheatres, which premiered in Cyprus.
