Playwright & Director

Actor, director, playwright, Gil has been with the Blyth Festival in some capacity or other since 1999. Outstanding shows over the years have included: Death of the Hired Man, The Drawer Boy, The Outdoor Donnellys, World Without Shadows, Pearl Gidley, The Nutalls, A Killing Snow, the Last Donnelly Standing, The Pigeon King, In the Wake of Wettlaufer, The Donnellys: A Trilogy, Saving Graceland, Radiotown: the Doc Cruickshank Story, The Wind Coming Over the Sea. Gil has been Artistic Director since 2014, and lives on a little lavender farm in Central Huron with his wife and four beautiful children. Headshot photo credit: Alex Franklin