Based on the traditional, stolen and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, I have been developing performances from first idea through production for the past 25 years.

My practice in Vancouver began as a co-founder of Proximity Lab/Arts (2003-2016), an interdisciplinary creation and performance collective.

As an artist at Playwrights Theatre Centre from 2005-2024, I dramaturged the world premieres of Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country, Carmen Aguirre’s Anywhere But Here, Tetsuro Shigetmatsu’s Empire of the Son, and Amber Funk Barton’s How to Say Goodbye, amongst many others.

My dramaturgical practice extends to developing spaces, companies, and artists. Serving as Artistic & Executive Director (2012-24), I led the team at PTC through two space moves from feasibility through implementation. 

With a commitment to progressive governance, I have served as secretary of the board for C-Space, PTC’s shared home, leading on cultural space policy. I was Board Treasurer of LMDA and the founding president of LMDA Canada. 

Currently, I am process dramaturg for Mermaid Spring, created by Barbara Adler and Kyla Gardiner (The Public Swoon).  I’m also continuing my long collaboration with playwright Pedro Chamale as development dramaturg on Flaca, Gorda y Chapara with rice & beans theatre. 

I am committed to forging right relationship to Indigenous sovereignty. I am the descendent of settlers who arrived to Robinson Superior Treaty land from England, and to Treaty 3 (Between the Lakes) territory from south of the 49th parallel, originally from Germany, the British Isles, and other unknown places. I was raised on Treaty 6 lands, near amiskwaciy-wâskahikan.

Banner photo by Ed Hunt. Isaac Lake, territory of the Dakelh speaking peoples.