Conceived this compelling story as a musical and is the producer of the new production of Come From Away performed each summer in Gander. In 2019 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada for his role in creating the show. In 2011 he established the Canadian Music Theatre Project, an international incubator for the development of new musicals, where over a decade he produced and developed the first workshops of Come From Away and 28 other musicals. Canada’s most prolific producer of new Canadian musicals, selected credits include, The Last Timbit, Maggie, and Grow. A proud graduate of Western Law.