Geoffrey Simon Brown

Geoffrey is an Albertan playwright, actor, director, and producer. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective and has served as the director of the Wildfire National Playwriting Competition since 2015.

His plays include Progress, Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air, Destroy, The Circle (which was published by Scirocco Drama in 2017), and the most recent adaptation(s) of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. Geoffrey was the creator-in-residence at Theatre Junction GRAND from 2016-2018, leading their mentorship program and creating the play If I Could Tell You Everything with an ensemble of Calgary teenagers.

As an actor he has worked on many of the major stages in Alberta as well as some living rooms and basements. He is a graduate of the...

Geoffrey is an Albertan playwright, actor, director, and producer. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective and has served as the director of the Wildfire National Playwriting Competition since 2015.

His plays include Progress, Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air, Destroy, The Circle (which was published by Scirocco Drama in 2017), and the most recent adaptation(s) of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. Geoffrey was the creator-in-residence at Theatre Junction GRAND from 2016-2018, leading their mentorship program and creating the play If I Could Tell You Everything with an ensemble of Calgary teenagers.

As an actor he has worked on many of the major stages in Alberta as well as some living rooms and basements. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

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Scripts

Progress

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Cast Size
20—25
Genre
drama,
political,
science fiction,
tragedy

Lord of the Flies meets The Breakfast Club in a post-climate-crisis world.

It’s a high school graduation. The keeners are setting up the party, the radicals are committing small acts of vandalism to drive down property value, the burnouts are just trying to have a good time.

When the power goes out, locking everyone inside, a group of teenagers must figure out on their own how to escape, how to make change in...

Lord of the Flies meets The Breakfast Club in a post-climate-crisis world.

It’s a high school graduation. The keeners are setting up the party, the radicals are committing small acts of vandalism to drive down property value, the burnouts are just trying to have a good time.

When the power goes out, locking everyone inside, a group of teenagers must figure out on their own how to escape, how to make change in a world that has abandoned them, and whether to burn it all to the ground.

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Michael Mysterious

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Michael joins a new family. It builds and burns around him. Sometimes he wonders if he is invisible

Michael joins a new family. It builds and burns around him. Sometimes he wonders if he is invisible

Night

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Cast Size
1
Genre
experimental

A solo performance about compulsive transformation and the tension between wildness and control.

Anxiety, claustrophobia, and addiction: I am turning into a wolf.

A solo performance about compulsive transformation and the tension between wildness and control.

Anxiety, claustrophobia, and addiction: I am turning into a wolf.

A Christmas Carol

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Cast Size
19—25
Genre
adaptation,
holiday

Christmas Eve, 1843. Marley is as dead as a doornail.

Christmas Eve, 1843. Marley is as dead as a doornail.

The Circle

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

It’s a high school garage party. Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there.

Everyone’s bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia.

It’s a high school garage party. Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there.

Everyone’s bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia.

Still Still Still

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

3
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
experimental

Red. Heartbeat. Everyone is always there. Everything happens at once and in one moment. Inspired by the book The Mind of A Mnemonist by Alexander Luria, the case study of a man with five-fold synesthesia, Still Still Still is an experiential manifestation of the world through the senses of the man who cannot forget.

Red. Heartbeat. Everyone is always there. Everything happens at once and in one moment. Inspired by the book The Mind of A Mnemonist by Alexander Luria, the case study of a man with five-fold synesthesia, Still Still Still is an experiential manifestation of the world through the senses of the man who cannot forget.

Time

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

1
Cast Size
5—100
Genre
experimental,
fantasy,
melodrama,
political,
science fiction

A disintegrating monarch; a wasteland; a snake circling beneath. An adolescent revolutionary wages war on age, time, nature, and sleep. A party that destroys the world. Everything is possible. Nothing ever changes.

A disintegrating monarch; a wasteland; a snake circling beneath. An adolescent revolutionary wages war on age, time, nature, and sleep. A party that destroys the world. Everything is possible. Nothing ever changes.

Control

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama

Rocky and Raine are teenage girls who drink, cut keys, and break into houses. Ben and Ashley need someone to talk to. Youth, crime, loneliness, love, and growing up; the fear of taking control of our destinies and the things we do to cover it up.

Rocky and Raine are teenage girls who drink, cut keys, and break into houses. Ben and Ashley need someone to talk to. Youth, crime, loneliness, love, and growing up; the fear of taking control of our destinies and the things we do to cover it up.

Air

by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
tragedy

Mike and Kyle are unexpectedly pulled into a web of criminal activities after stealing drugs from Kyle’s brother leads them to accidentally kidnap a major drug dealer. Four garbage bags of pot, a bottle of ether, ‘would you rather’, and spiders: Air is a play about morality and fear.

Mike and Kyle are unexpectedly pulled into a web of criminal activities after stealing drugs from Kyle’s brother leads them to accidentally kidnap a major drug dealer. Four garbage bags of pot, a bottle of ether, ‘would you rather’, and spiders: Air is a play about morality and fear.