Biography and Resume

Eric Goudie is a genre-blending artisan enjoying a rich, diverse and fulfilling career in the creative and performing arts. He is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, blogger and copywriter. He is a graphic designer, audio engineer, arts consultant, editor, academic, dramaturg and teacher. He is a producer, director, designer, stage manager, stagehand and actor. He is a farmer, gardener, entrepreneur, woodworker, outdoorsman, volunteer and husband.

Eric began his complex and lifelong love affairs with writing and the theatre in public school, when he had a poem published through the Poetry Institute of Canada, a play produced at the Sears Drama Festival, and won the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award for Fiction. Since then he has gone on to author no fewer than 40 stage plays, as well as many other works of poetry and prose. He authored of over 400 articles and How-to Guides on a wide variety of subject matter for Helium.com, and was a member of the site's Channel Managing, editorial and title-seeding teams for many years. In recent years Eric has turned his attention back to his first love, creative writing.

In the theatre half of his world Eric has worked as a professional designer, stage manager and technician, and has produced over 100 different plays produced through Grinder Productions, his own live theatre company. Other production credits include shows with Touchmark Theatre, Bluewater Summer Playhouse, Theatre on the Grand, Elora Community Theatre, Wellington-Waterloo Playhouse, Guelph Little Theatre, CC Entertainment, the Kaufman Arts Studio, Flush Ink Productions, and many others. In 2013 Eric became the Theatre Coordinator of the Fergus Grand Theatre, fulfilling a lifelong dream.