Co-founded Child's Play Theatre, a Toronto touring company and the Augusta Theatre Company

Scripted and starred as an earnest serial killer in Bruce McDonald's "Roadkill"

Re-teamed with McDonald as screenwriter and co-star of "Highway 61"

Featured as a young film censor in Atom Egoyan's "The Adjuster"

Helmed the short films "Blue" and "The Bloody Nose"

Co-wrote and starred in the episodic biopic "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"

Played a quirky pet shop owner in Atom Egoyan's "Exotica"

Wrote screenplay for Bruce McDonald's Canadian reservation-set drama "Dance Me Outside"

Featured in the drama "When Night Is Falling"

Starred with Margot Kidder and Alexis Arquette in "Never Met Picasso"

Starred with Eric Thal and Sarah Polley in "Joe's So Mean to Josephine"

Featured in Egoyan's drama "Sarabande" with cellist Yo-Yo Ma (aired on PBS as part of the series "Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach")

Featured in the Showtime remake of Rod Serling's gripping Holocaust drama "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"

Created, wrote and starred in the CBC's comedy series "Twitch City"

Along with writer-director Francois Girard, wrote "The Red Violin"; also had a featured role

Wrote and starred in his feature directorial debut, "Last Night"

Starred in Bruce McDonald's short film "Elimination Dance"

Co-starred in David Cronenberg's thriller "eXistenZ"

Featured in Showtime's biopic "The Passion of Ayn Rand"

Wrote and directed "A Word from the Management"

Cast in the Canadian TV series "Slings and Arrows" as Darren Nichols, a pretentious theatre director

Starred in the Comedy Network animated sitcom "Odd Job Jack" as the titular hero, Jack Ryder

Helmed second film, "Childstar"

Earned a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for "The Drowsy Chaperone"

Hosted the CBC Radio One series "High Definition"

Appeared in Ken Finkleman's miniseries "At The Hotel"

Wrote the screen adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 novel "Blindness" (also starred); directed by Fernando Meirelles