Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, August-September 2006 to a sold-out season. A young Canadian man and woman are trained to be spies at Camp X in southern Ontario during World War II. There they do something truly surreptitious – they fall in love, and hide that fact from their superiors. When they are dropped behind enemy lines, their love becomes a lethal liability. A.S.K. is a dark play about the spy-like nature…
Two eccentric individuals set out across Canada with nothing but their backpacks, a stuffed beaver, and a journal, intent on proving that Canada and its history are not what they appear to be. Canadians are not polite people with boring pasts, but strange folks who purposely hide the many bizarre stories in their history. These two private dicks of culture encounter such things as the preserved skeleton of a man who outran horses, a weird…
Big Red Barn Entertainment, for the CTV National Network, first aired May 9, 2004. Co-producer and writer “Team Spirit” is the heartbreaking yet triumphant story of two Inuit brothers who set out to become the first of their people to play in the National Hockey League. One meets a tragic end, while the other reaches his goal, bearing his brother’s memory in his heart.
Great North Productions, for History Television, first aired July 2001. Writer. A documentary about Joseph Scriven, who wrote the famous hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and told no one; whose strange, dark life seemed either blessed, or cursed, depending on one’s perspective.
Great North Productions, for History Television, first aired January 19, 2000. Writer. The amazing story of William Hunt, highlighted by a live high-wire act above the Ganaraska River in Port Hope, Ontario by the legendary Jay Cochrane, as well as visits to Niagara Falls, the Kalahari Desert, and peeks inside freak shows and dangerous performances of Victorian London. Photo of Jay Cochrane, Tightrope Walker, crossing the Ganaraska River in Port Hope, Ontario, 2000. Kevin Kelly Photography.
Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, July-August, 1999; and brought back by popular demand July-August, 2000. These productions played before more than 10,000 spectators, telling the dark story of Joseph Scriven, the strange country preacher who wrote the legendary hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” but never took credit for it. The play featured an on-stage baptism and a drowning in a pond.
Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, July-August, 1994, telling the spectacular life of The Great Farini, a boy from Port Hope, Ontario. A veritable circus was incorporated into this outdoor production, with the great Nicky Dewhurst from Cirque du Soleil on the high-wire above the heads of the audience, and Erik Burns on the ground as the leading man. Poster by Jerrard Smith
Shane has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest (worldwide), Saturday Night, En Route, The Beaver, Equinox, Toronto Life, Shift, Report on Business, Elm Street, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and The National Post.