Directing
The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.
Four friends are reunited to have a picnic on the beach, a break from the chaos of the city. The plan to have a day at Hanlan’s Point, a gay nude beach on Toronto Island, has each character addressing their own personal complicated relationship to the beach and to the party culture that surrounds it.
An aspiring twenty-something writer accompanies her equally reluctant younger sister and their deliriously happy parents on vacation where she navigates her family's expectations and her own desires.
In the late 1990s, when Sonny seeks to redefine his long-term relationship with Chester, the painfully introverted cartoonist begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers an unexpected new form of intimacy.
Nev is a young Trans woman in the early stages of her transition. In the small fishing town where she lives, she grapples with navigating isolation and managing her fears of reintegrating back into the world she loves...being on the water, in the waves... surfing.
Following her partner's funeral, a young woman and her newly-inherited greyhound explore the awkward weight of grief in a honeymoon suite, leaving the weight of another death.
