Career
He is best known for the plays Warm Wind in China (1988), one of the first and most prominent Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-themed plays produced in Canada. As I Am (1986), a noted gay-themed work. And the award-winning The Harps of God (1997).
His other plays have included Queen of the Cadillac (1990), Just Plain Murder (1992), Sweet Magdalena (1994), The Eyes of the Gull (2000), New Arcadia (2001) and Horse High, Bulletin Strong, Pig Tight (2004).
He has also published two novels, The World Above the Sky (2010) and Meat Cove (2013).