Geoffrey Simon Brown

Geoffrey Simon Brown is a playwright, director, and actor born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is a co-creator of the Major Matt Mason Collective, a theatre company dedicated to creating intimate, visceral, experimental theatre about and for Calgary’s younger generation. Since 2010 he has worked with the collective to produce emerging and established scripts as well as collaboratively devised work. Geoffrey is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting program and Mount Royal College’s now-defunct theatre performance program. He is the winner of two Betty Mitchell Awards, Theatre Calgary’s Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award, the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Post-Secondary Playwriting Competition, and Tarragon’s RBC Emerging Playwright Award. He is currently the playwright-in-residence at Theatre Junction GRAND where he is writing a play for an ensemble of Calgary teenagers. His other plays include Michael Mysterious, Still Still Still, Time, Control, Air, and Destroy.