Playwright and Dramaturg
Scout is currently working on Cult Play, a suspenseful solo show that pairs live performance and multimedia to explore coercion, intimacy, and the aesthetics of power. It premiered with Imago Theatre at the Segal Centre in Fall 2025, and will be followed by a production at Neptune Theatre in Winter 2026. Scout’s other plays include O Death, a nuanced exploration of cancel culture, trans identity, and the legacy of our cultural icons, and This is the August, a darkly funny love story about generational frictions, fame, and the blurring of public and private selves, which premiered at SummerWorks. Their short play Lodged in the Body toured nationally and internationally with Theatre of the Beat.
Scout’s work has been supported by institutions across Canada and internationally, including Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, Imago Theatre, The Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, and Sanctuary Queer Arts in Scotland. They’ve participated in residencies at Gros Morne and Riding Mountain National Parks as well as Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island.
As a dramaturg, Scout has collaborated on new plays with artists across Canada and the UK, most recently working with playwright Annie Valentina at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, playwright Megan Piercey Monafu at ArtEngine in Ottawa, and playwright Kristy Pickering at the Tron in Glasgow.
Scout holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University.
Cult Play premiered with Imago Theatre in Fall 2025 and will be at Neptune Theatre in February 2026.
Current Projects
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Is It You? is in early phases of development.
Ronan is in early phases of development.
Cult Play immerses the audience in Alex’s journey and the seductive power of belonging. In revealing her dark archive, Alex invites you to step into a thought experiment that questions the boundaries between voyeur and participant.
Cult Play was developed with the support of Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, including through the Gros Morne Playwrights' Residency in collaboration with le Centre des auteurs dramatiques and Artistic Fraud. Dramaturg Fatma Sarah Elkashef and digital dramaturgs Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver of potatoCakes_digital played an instrumental role in the creation of this work. Their contributions were guided by the Digital Dramaturgy Integration Strategy and the Digital Dramaturgy Initiative, co-imagined by Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Theatre Centre, and the Blyth Festival. Cult Play has also been supported through Brian Drader, Thomas Morgan Jones, and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights-Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Imago Creators’ Circle.
O Death—a play with music—is a nuanced exploration of trans and queer identity, cancel culture, and the legacy of our cultural icons.
Supported by: Playwrights Workshop Montreal and dramaturgs Fatma Sarah Elkashef and Elio Zarrillo. Supported by the Manitoba Arts Council, The Riding Mountain National Park Residency, as a Collective in Residence at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre through the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, and by the Toronto Arts Council Playwrights Program.