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Ten Thousand Kilometres

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Synopsis: “You have cancer” is a statement no one wants to hear from a doctor. “Your treatment will take months” is even worse. When a wife receives unexpected news that her cancer treatment will require months of chemotherapy, radiation, and countless hospital visits, she and her husband search for a way to cope with the emotional weight of the journey. 

This 10-minute audio drama for three actors is set entirely inside a car but is really a story about the emotional miles travelled when life suddenly changes for the worse. 

The husband proposes an unusual coping strategy: they’ll imagine each hospital drive as part of a cross-Canada road trip, from Gander to Vancouver, one appointment at a time. Over the course of 71 trips to and from hospitals and along seemingly endless hospital corridors, they travel farther west, guided by a calm dashboard GPS voice they name JoAnne. They measure their progress in imaginary kilometres and with the distractions provided by audiobooks, gas stations, and places to eat.

Routine medical journeys become scenes of humour, anxiety, reflection, frustration and grace as they discover that imagination and their senses of humour can make even the hardest journeys bearable. Along the way, they confront hair loss, treatment setbacks, fatigue, unexpected laughter, roadside comforts, and the small victories that sustain them.

As treatments near completion, their imagined journey mirrors their emotional one — not just enduring illness, but discovering how imagination, companionship, and humour can transform hardship into shared adventure. Ten Thousand Kilometres is a road trip through uncertainty, resilience, and love, where the destination matters less than how you travel together.

Now includes an epilogue that reveals what comes after the journey ends.

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Taking Turns Holding On (Monologue)

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Taking Turns Holding On is a deeply personal and often humorous monologue about a long marriage shaped by illness, loss, and resilience. Moving through decades of shared experience, from the heartbreak of stillbirth to cancer, chronic illness, and recovery. It explores how caregiving is never a fixed role, but a lifelong exchange. In the face of … Read more

The Diner Cycle

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SYNOPSIS: The Diner Cycle is a series of 3 short plays set in a mysterious diner that exists somewhere between life and whatever comes next. One by one, strangers arrive—confused, searching, or unaware that their lives have just ended. Guided by those who came before them, each must confront unfinished questions, unexpected truths, and the possibility that helping someone else move forward may be the only way to move forward themselves.

The diner never closes. The coffee is always hot. And the conversation continues.

The Diner Cycle brings together three short plays:

  • Dear Angie
  • Open All Night
  • After: Death Is Just the Beginning

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Dear Angie: Open All Night

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A second act to Dear Angie, set twenty years later — with the diner open again.
SYNOPSIS: Dear Angie: Open All Night is a heartfelt two-act, 20-minute, play set in a small diner where food and compassion are served without menus. Angie, a warm-hearted diner owner with an uncanny ability to sense what people truly need, helps her patrons navigate love, loss, and life’s everyday struggles — until a mysterious visitor reveals her gift has a deeper purpose. Twenty years later, the diner exists in a place between life and death, where souls arrive seeking comfort, understanding, and closure. When a former customer returns under unexpected circumstances, Angie helps him confront grief and forgiveness.

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Summer of 69 Job (Monologue)

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Synopsis: Fresh from his first year of university and confident from prior camp experience, a young Rich Helms takes a summer job as a counsellor at a boys’ camp for inner-city kids near the soon-to-be legendary Woodstock festival. Expecting a routine summer in the woods, he instead encounters culture shock, rough language, unexpected humour, and eye-opening social realities that challenge his assumptions about the world.

Through comic mishaps, awkward first impressions, and unforgettable camp moments — from Ex-lax-laced hot chocolate to watching the moon landing together — the experience becomes both hilarious and formative. By summer’s end, Rich returns home changed, carrying with him new perspective, colourful vocabulary, and a lasting appreciation for how profoundly a single summer job can reshape how you see people and yourself.

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Identical Twins

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Synopsis: Martha arrives at a scenic and well-loved lakeside cabin and discovers her boyfriend, Damian, dead. His identical twin, Janus, claims they were confronted with a break-in that turned deadly. However, something doesn’t add up to Martha. She perceives details such as a mole on the wrong side of Janus’s face, and she suspects his sketchy explanations and strange behaviour.

Tension rises, and Janus confesses to impersonating Damian in the past. He even shares the fact that he secretly dated Martha to experience what his quieter brother seemed to have to attract her. He is jealous of his brother and possessive of Martha, and the truth finally emerges: the brothers had a confrontation that ended with Janus fatally striking Damian and staging the scene as a robbery.

Realizing that her own life is in danger, while they wait for the police, Martha needs to convince Janus she will go along with his scheme. As soon as the police arrive, in a final twist, she exposes Janus, revealing both his deception and the murder. The audience is left to understand that although twins can be identical on the outside, they may be totally different emotionally and morally.

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Accidents Arranged

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Synopsis: Set aboard a stylish 19th-century paddle-wheel steamboat in 1856, Accidents Arranged is an entertaining romantic mystery that revolves around two main characters who both use charm and deception to gain the upper hand with the other. The result is a surprise.

Wealthy businessman Arnold Crump discovers he has been swindled by a beautiful woman wearing a flamboyant, blue-feathered hat. Out for revenge, he hires Bert Newsome, a hitman who specializes in making murders look like accidents, to kill her during the steamboat voyage.

When Bert meets Cora Lee, a lovely woman wearing a blue hat, unexpected sparks fly. Each sets out to manipulate the other through flirting. Cora chokes on a salad crouton at dinner, Bert and must decide whether to let her die or save her. He chooses compassion, and the rescue ignites genuine romance.

Their connection is so profound, they share their backgrounds. Cora explains that she is the daughter of a con-artist mother who trained her in deception and mentions that she borrowed her mother’s hat. Meanwhile, Bert reveals that his chosen profession stems unexpectedly from a string of conveniently timed “accidents.”

As love deepens, loyalties shift, and in a final ironic twist, Cora’s bossy mother dies — not by design, but by accident. Or does she? Bert and Cora see future potential in a business, as well as a personal, relationship.

With snappy dialogue and the clever use of dark humour, Accidents Arranged explores drive, corruption and the non-choreographed dance between luck and purpose. The audience is left to think that the most satisfying partnerships might be arranged by accident.

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The Cards Lied

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Synopsis: The Cards Lied is a 30–minute historical fictional murder mystery set in 1920 Bootle, England, just after The Great War. Based on intense research, the plot of this play is believable in a historical context. As men returned from the war, women were pushed out of the jobs they held to keep the country and the war running. Many of these women turned to spiritualism to help themselves and others stay connected to the loved ones they lost.

In this play, three women who once worked side-by-side at the Cunard Shell Works find themselves embroiled in a disturbing scenario. One of them is dead, and her daughter is determined to search for the truth of how her loved one passed on. One who supervised production at Cunard now bitterly finds herself without a job and social standing. The third reads cards for a living, but at times, the cards lie. A man with deep ties to nature helps to carry out a plan to catch a murderer.

The Cards Lied poses an interesting reconsideration of responsibility, pressure and guilt.

Footnote: I am currently working on a second act, The Canary Girls’ Secrets, which takes place two years later.

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After: Death Is Just the Beginning

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Synopsis: After being fatally shot during a botched bank robbery, Todd finds himself in a confusing in-between existence called “After,” where the dead — known as passers — coexist invisibly alongside the living. While he struggles to understand his new reality, Todd meets Brat, a blunt, yet unexpectedly compassionate former hooker who was murdered years earlier. She helps newly dead souls like Todd who are frustrated trying to adapt to their bizarre after-death existence.

Todd soon learns the rules of “After” — no heaven, no hell, only personal states of mind. He also discovers that his girlfriend, Jessie, is shattered by his death and is considering ending her own life. With help from Brat and another passer, Spike, Todd is desperate to reach Jessie across the life-death gulf.

A Tarot reading helps the passers establish an emotional connection with Jessie. Todd manages to express the depth of his love for her and urge her to keep living. When Jessie reveals she is pregnant with his child, Todd realizes his purpose: to help her move forward with her life and that of the baby’s.

Dark humour combined with romance create a supernatural mystery. After: Death Is Just the Beginning explores the concepts of life and love beyond death, the difficulties faced by those left behind, and the importance of forging bonds with those around us. The ending also inspires expressing love by accepting and letting go.

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