Jared is an actor, writer, director and dramaturg based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. From 1994 to 2007, he was an Artistic Co-Director of Edmonton’s Concrete Theatre, an award-winning professional theatre company dedicated to the development and production of issue-based, culturally diverse Theatre for Young Audiences. Jared left to work with the Alberta Workers’ Health Centre. Jared has worked as a popular theatre facilitator with diverse and marginalised populations, especially youth and Aboriginal communities, and was a Next Generation participant at the ASSITEJ 2008 World Congress in Adelaide.