He acted primarily on stage, as well as having guest roles in film and television, until writing his first play, High Life, in the early 1990s. A comedy-drama based on a group of drug addicts he met while acting in a regional theatre production, the play won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Mid-Sized Theatre Division, in 1996, and was a shortlisted Governor General's Award finalist for English-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards. He later wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film adaptation High Life, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 31st Genie Awards.
His later plays have included The Gingko Tree, Resistance, Her Wonders and an adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's novel Who Has Seen the Wind. He has also published a number of short stories.
As an actor, he is now most noted for his role in the original cast of the musical Come from Away.

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