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The Longlight Legacy


Welcome! There's lots going on. Here's a taste!

A Shine of Rainbows, the feature film I co-wrote that was shot in Donegal, Ireland and stars Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn and the incredible John Bell just premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, has been picked as the Opening Gala Film at the Vancouver Film Festival, and will soon be at the London, England Film Festival. Click here for trailer.

I wrote the screenplay for Allan Stratton's brilliant novel, Chanda's Secrets and we'll be shooting it in South Africa in November, Oliver Schmitz directing.

My new play about the incredible wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen premieres at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.

The Longlight Legacy comes out in Russian in 2010, Eterna Press is the publisher.

My play Mirror Game has its German language premiere as "Schattenboxen" (Shadow Boxing) at Theater Neue Buhne Senftenberg, February, 2010.

And Kindness, recently published by Dramatic Publishing and Playwrights Canada Press, won the AATE's 2009 Distinguished Play Award at their meeting in New York.