Geoffrey Simon Brown

Geoffrey Simon Brown

Geoffrey is a playwright, actor, director, and producer born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. 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 Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air, Destroy, The Circle (which was published by Scirocco Drama in 2017),...
Geoffrey is a playwright, actor, director, and producer born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. 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 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 Calgary as well as some living rooms and basements. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Plays

  • Michael Mysterious by Geoffrey Simon Brown
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: family
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: family
    Michael joins a new family. It builds and burns around him. Sometimes he wonders if he is invisible
  • The Circle by Geoffrey Simon Brown
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: circle, garage + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: circle, garage, party, bong, trees, mutts
    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.
  • Night by Geoffrey Simon Brown
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: experimental
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    Keyword: wolf, anxiety + 3 more
    Genre: experimental
    Keyword: wolf, anxiety, claustrophobia, addiction, mental illness
    A solo performance about compulsive transformation and the tension between wildness and control.

    Anxiety, claustrophobia, and addiction: I am turning into a wolf.
  • Still Still Still by Geoffrey Simon Brown
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, experimental
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    Keyword: memory, Synesthesia + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental
    Keyword: memory, Synesthesia, Luria
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–100
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    Genre: experimental, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: snakes, sand + 3 more
    Genre: experimental, fantasy, melodrama, political, science fiction
    Keyword: snakes, sand, revolution, nature, party
    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: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: youth, crime + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: youth, crime, loneliness, love, growing up, keys, teen drinking
    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: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
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    Keyword: crime, Drugs + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: crime, Drugs, youth, morality, fear, Ether, Kidnapping, spiders, Backgammon
    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.