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. The play will receive its world premiere with Imago Theatre at the Segal Centre in Fall 2025, followed by a production at Neptune Theatre in Winter 2026. Their 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.
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 Edinburgh. They’ve participated in residencies at Gros Morne and Riding Mountain National Parks as well as Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Their short play Lodged in the Body toured nationally and internationally with Theatre of the Beat.
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 has served on juries for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph, Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, and the Manitoba Arts Council.
Scout holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and a BA from Concordia University. They currently belong to the Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit and the Imago Creators’ Circle.
Upcoming World Premiere
Cult Play debuts with Imago Theatre (October - November 2025) before making its way to Neptune Theatre (February 2026).
Queer, enticingly playful and unapologetically bold, Cult Play is a multimedia solo show that explores the complex interplay of desire and deception, complicity and choice.
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.
Current Projects
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.