Geoffrey Tennant is from the 2003 Canadian TV series Slings & Arrows. His journal is at unhingedrapier, his PB is Paul Gross, and he's played by Richard.

Geoffrey Tennant is crazy.

Scratch that. He used to be. He's better now. Really.

Geoffrey was an accomplished stage actor seven years ago, until, mid-way through a legendary performance of Hamlet directed by his then-friend Oliver Welles at the New Burbage Festival, he suffered a complete breakdown, jumped into Ophelia's grave and ran screaming from the theatre.

After a period of time spent in a psychiatric facility, Geoffrey returned to theatre, but his career as an actor was over. Instead he took up the director's role at a nonprofit company called Théatre Sans Argent (Theatre Without Money), based in a run-down warehouse in Toronto. His former director and his ex-girlfriend Ellen Fanshaw continued their own careers at New Burbage, out of touch with Geoffrey and with great enmity between all three as a result of that night seven years prior.

When Oliver is killed in an accident after falling inebriated into the street one night, Geoffrey reluctantly returns to New Burbage to deliver a blistering eulogy at his funeral that decries the commercialism dominating the theatre he once performed at. Just a day later, he finds himself offered a position as the interim Artistic Director, and after clashing with the guest director for the same play that drove him insane seven years ago, has to then pick up the reins himself with no budget, nowhere near enough time, a Hollywood actor in the lead role, and with nowhere near the mental capacity to cope with it all.

Oh, and his dead friend came back from beyond the grave to bother him for reasons not entirely clear.

He's not crazy. Really.

APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY:

Geoffrey is mercurial in nature; somewhat unpredictable, sometimes startling and harbouring a temper that can be explosive.  He consistently looks like he just got out of bed; his hair is generally uncombed, his attire is largely a t-shirt, shirt with unbuttoned cuffs and a long black coat. He also has a flair for the dramatic; he once duelled Darren Nichols, a fellow director (and admittedly a somewhat pompous ass) while he was at college ... and again more recently during a drunken confrontation at Ellen Fanshaw's house. (Darren Nichols may have, during that confrontation, possibly been stabbed in the arm and reduced to a sobbing blithering mess in a corner).

Geoffrey is a profoundly emotional man, passionate about the works he directs, and the integrity of theatre without the influence of corporate sponsorship; he is impulsive, dramatic, intensely imaginative and creative, with a deep understanding of the Shakespearean works that shaped his career.