Producer Lab: Companies & Collectives

Geoffrey Simon Brown is an Alberta-based theatre artist and founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective, a performance company dedicated to creating visceral, intimate, experimental, small-scale theatre about and for Alberta’s younger generations. He has served as the director of the collective’s Wildfire National Playwriting Competition since 2015. Through the competition, and the company’s development unit, he has helped to support dozens of new Canadian plays.

His own plays include Static, Michael Mysterious, The Circle, Night, Progress, Still Still Still, Control, Air, If I Could Tell You Everything (written alongside the Theatre Junction high school mentorship ensemble), and the most recent adaptation(s) of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. As an actor he has performed 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’s playwriting program. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com.