He began his career with the internationally-acclaimed play and movie Agnes of God. Since then he’s had three more plays mounted on Broadway and over twenty-five film, television movies and miniseries produced, including acclaimed adaptations of The Pillars of the Earth, Gifted Hands, and The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.

Scribner published his first novel, Hook’s Tale, to wonderful reviews and his theatrical adaptation of the book played to standing ovations at Houston’s Stages. He has recently workshopped a new musical with his writing partner Matty Selman based on the life of Maria Montessori called La Dottoressa, and a new play titled Marlowe! Goethe! Faust!

His adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist toured the U.K. after its acclaimed West End run and will soon find its way to New York and beyond. He’s received the Humanitas Award (plus two nominations), five Writers’ Guild Award nominations, a Gemini nomination, an Edgar Award, a Camie Award, a Christopher Award, and his projects have won a Gemini Awards, several Spirit Awards, and been nominated for the Emmy and the Golden Globe.

As an actor he has appeared in The Pillars of the Earth, The Capture of the Green River Killer, and performs Courage, his one-person adaptation of the life of J.M. Barrie, the man who first told Peter Pan’s version of this story and whom Hook hates with a passion.