Production

Wayne Burns

Wayne Burns is a Canadian-American actor and producer. Hailing from Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, he may be most recognized for his series regular role as Lykos, the Prince of Athens, in the Syfy Original Series, Olympus (2015), created by BAFTA © Nominee Nick Willing. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Wayne has starred opposite Golden Globe © Winner Richard Gere in Longing (2024…

Known For

Longing

Longing · 2024

MovieDramaComedy

A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.

Sharp Corner

Sharp Corner · 2025

MovieThrillerComedy

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

fastLOVE

fastLOVE · 2025

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

Greenhorn

Greenhorn · 2025

A young masculine-presenting woman must return home to help her estranged father, an ex-rancher, recover from a car accident — only to discover that reconciliation isn’t so easy when identity is at stake.

The Players

The Players · 2025

Summer. 1994. Emily is cast as the youngest member of an avant garde theatre production. She is immediately entranced by the bohemian lives of her fellow actors and feels like she has found a surrogate family, but as the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.

Body So Fluorescent

Body So Fluorescent · 2020

Body So Fluorescent

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

All the Wrong Reasons

All the Wrong Reasons · 2013

All the Wrong Reasons

MovieComedyDrama

An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.

White Night

White Night · 2017

MovieDramaComedy

Lives intertwine over the course of the Nuit Blanche art festival.

Filmography

Sort

Longing

Longing · 2024

MovieDramaComedy

A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.

Mikey

Sharp Corner

Sharp Corner · 2025

MovieThrillerComedy

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

Tim

fastLOVE

fastLOVE · 2025

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

Director

Greenhorn

Greenhorn · 2025

A young masculine-presenting woman must return home to help her estranged father, an ex-rancher, recover from a car accident — only to discover that reconciliation isn’t so easy when identity is at stake.

Producer

The Players

The Players · 2025

Summer. 1994. Emily is cast as the youngest member of an avant garde theatre production. She is immediately entranced by the bohemian lives of her fellow actors and feels like she has found a surrogate family, but as the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.

Danny

Body So Fluorescent

Body So Fluorescent · 2020

Body So Fluorescent

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

Producer

All the Wrong Reasons

All the Wrong Reasons · 2013

All the Wrong Reasons

MovieComedyDrama

An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.

Laughing Clerk

White Night

White Night · 2017

MovieDramaComedy

Lives intertwine over the course of the Nuit Blanche art festival.

Ryan

Eel

MovieCrimeDrama

A young man turns to illegal eel fishing to support his family.

Director

A Dinner Party

A Dinner Party · 2019

In the aftermath of climate catastrophe, a lonely former environmental activist invites three strange guests over for dinner.

Simon

Blackbird

Blackbird · 2012

An unlikely friendship with a preppy classmate lands toubled teenager Sean Randall in serious hot water when he's falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario.

Danny

The Gift Giver

The Gift Giver · 2017

An HIV support group is infiltrated by a young man with the intention of contracting the virus.

Sam

Soap

Soap is a short film that explores the value of platonic intimacy, especially in the queer community. Based on past heartbreak and present friendship.

Producer

Liar

What begins as a seemingly innocent hookup between two young men quickly turns enigmatic as Mark and Jeremy grapple with their insecurities, dark pasts and relationships to love in a time of transactional sex and irresponsibility. A subversive queer parable, LIAR is a stylish, intimate drama that aims to crack open conversations around consent, queer suicide, ghosting culture and the cost of vulnerability.

Writer

BUNKER TIME!

BUNKER TIME! · 2025

BUNKER TIME! is a nuclear nightmare years in the making: In the early 60s - the height of the Cold War - TV personality 'Auntie Pearle' wrote, directed and starred in a public-access show that aimed to prepare children for the nuclear apocalypse. Deemed too disturbing to air, the show was buried for years; only now, in even MORE disturbing times, is Bunker Time! fit to be unleashed on the public.

Producer

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows · 2019

What We Do in the Shadows

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Vampire at Urgent Care

Remedy

Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.

Bobby Petrozzi

SkyMed

Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.

Paulie

Olympus

Olympus · 2015

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of how a few brave men and women banished the Gods to the realm of the unconscious - a place they called the Underworld or the Kingdom of Hades. The series follows the protagonist as he seeks the truth about his past, which may be intertwined with the Gods themselves.

Prince Lykos