Sixteen years ago today my mother died. There was one week from the moment I found out she was ill til the moment she died. I'm not...

Many years ago I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with the incredible dramaturg Iris Turcott. I'd sent her some of my...

Where do ideas come from? In writing classes we do all sorts of exercises drawing from outside inspirations like news articles,...

Tonight I'm teaching a workshop on playwriting to an acting class of teenagers, so I thought it'd be fun to share a monologue I wrote...

I think I've mentioned this a few times before, when I was the age that every person you have a conversation with asks you what you want...

Continuing with something on the lighter side (to counteract the darkness of December), this is a gender neutral monologue slightly...

Something lighter today. In 2008 Sara Beck had a wonderful idea of interviewing women and asking what they were looking for in a partner...

Because I have kids, a lot of people seem to think I must write children's theatre. I don't. I really, really don't. Maybe it's because I...

I started writing as kid. I wrote a one person show when I was 12 that was a person on stage and a voice from beyond and I recorded the...

Today's monologue is a vulnerable confession from the character Jegger from The Pigeon. Alumnae Theatre 's production of The Pigeon...

Today's monologue comes from my play Blood River that just had a wonderful production at Theatre Kingston  directed by Rosemary Doyle...

(I've decided this is a thing now, so it is) Today I'm posting one of my favorite monologues I've written. It's simple but every time I...