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Original theatrical experiences combining live performance, storytelling, illustration, projection, animation, and audience imagination.

Craig wears many theatrical hats: playwright, director, designer, dramaturg, stage manager, and multidisciplinary creator. He is able both to create solo and to lead large teams.

A founding member of The 20K Collective of artists, Craig co-created the plays Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Game of Clones, Jungle Book, and HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck.

These productions have played in 64 cities across 31 States and Provinces, including Off-Broadway in New York in 2016 and 2019. Jungle Book and FRANKENSTEIN continue to tour annually. HANS was nominated for the 2026 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play.

Craig is a Canadian Actors' Equity Association (CAEA) stage manager. He has stage managed all of the plays he co-created, as well as Rick Miller's solo BOOM Trilogy of plays (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ) in Canada, Québec and France (en français), the USA, and Taiwan. Craig has also SM'ed works for regional Canadian theatres, including: Centaur Theatre (GOBLIN: Macbeth, dir. Rebecca Northan); Segal Centre (CLUE, dir. Lisa Rubin; Yid Life Crisis, dir. Jamie Elman, Eli Batalion); Monument-National (Caravan, dir. Liz Valdez); The Capitol Theatre in Port Hope ON and Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, MB (GASLIGHT, dir. Marie Farsi). If you are in need of a stage manager, please reach out.

Craig co-directed a workshop of the musical Blocked by Ben Wexler for TheaterWorksUSA. A mentor to emerging artists, Craig has mentored Yellowknife artist Martin Rehak for the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, and Winnipeg artist Andrea Sonnechsen, including as the writing mentor and co-author for her debut play Redwood Woman.

Craig's current productions in various stages of development include the plays CYNIC (Banff Playwrights'Lab 2025), The Time Machine, The Turn Of The Screw, Winnie The Pooh, and A Deed Without A Name about William Shakespeare and King James.

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Productions

HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales

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HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales Touring production | Premiered in Toronto as part of the Luminato Festival 2025

Co-Writer • Co-Director • Co-Designer

Dora Award nominee for Outstanding New Play! Wondrous and hilarious, HANS conjures the life and stories of Hans Christian Andersen, from his poor childhood as an “Ugly Duckling”, to fame across Europe. Beloved tales like “The Little Mermaid”, “Princess and the Pea”, and “Little Match Girl” come to life as you’ve never seen them before: through puppetry, live video, clown, slapstick comedy, opera, and an original accordion soundtrack!

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FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book

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FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book Touring production | Premiered in 2022

Co-Writer • Co-Director • Co-Designer

This electrifying new stage production blends immersive comic book design and playful theatrical techniques to reanimate the sci-fi classic for a new generation. This new family-friendly spin on the literary classic, Frankenstein confronts modern issues of climate change, artificial intelligence, and our relationship to technology… monsters of our own making! When a young graphic novelist named Mary discovers the journal of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, she’s drawn into his uncanny story of secret experiments to conquer death. She discovers that we all need to face our own fears… before they face us!

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Jungle Book

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Jungle Book Touring production | Premiered in 2018

Co-Writer • Co-Director • Co-Designer

The classic Mowgli stories burst to life using spectacular immersive video. Jungle Book will transport you from Mowgli’s childhood with the wolves in India, to our urban jungle today. This is not the Disney movie, it's Jungle Book as you've never seen it before, with eye-popping video, shadow puppetry, original music, and new songs performed by a cast of all South-Asian descent. This international hit show delves into themes of belonging, and our relationship to the animal kingdom. Eye-popping video, shadow-play, and original music make this family production of Jungle Book "like stepping inside a beautifully illustrated children’s storybook. It’s a MAGICAL experience!" - Sarasota Observer

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Past production | Premiered at Panamania, Toronto 2015

Co-Writer • Co-Designer

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea is the stage adaptation of the classic Jules Verne Sci-Fi adventure, exploring the power of nature and the nature of power. Plunge into a multisensory experience with unforgettable characters, eye-popping projections and interactive audience technology. This family-friendly show encourages us to connect for the future. After a world premiere at the 2015 PanAm Games, the show was a hit Off-Broadway at The New Victory Theater on 42nd Street in NYC. “MAGICAL! A frisky adaptation of the Jules Verne sci-fi saga… The use of projections is jaw dropping!” - NY Times

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Game of Clones

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Game of Clones Past production | Premiered in 2018

Co-Writer • Co-Director • Co-Designer

GAME of CLONES is the hilarious parody mash-up from the creators of the international hit MacHomer. It's George Lucas vs. George RR Martin in a mash-up of 2 beloved sagas, with 2 amazing actors playing 60 ridiculous characters. It's a collision of the sublime and the ridiculous, of Sci Fi and Fantasy, of knights getting their hands cut off. and... of knights getting their hands cut off. From high-tech multimedia to low-brow humor, you'll find it all: space, ice, fire, sex, and murder. Now touring all 7 Kingdoms as well as Galaxies far, far away... Perfect to book for college audiences and up during the spring seasons of Game of Thrones or the winter runs of Star Wars!

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