Blake is a founding member of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre and an award-winning writer and director whose work has been presented throughout Canada and in Europe. He has created or collaborated on such productions as The Erotic Irony of Old Glory, Tears of a Dinosaur, Serpent Kills, The Land The Animals, Dance Freak, Breeder, Permission, Alien Bait, The Ugly Man, Conniption Cabaret, Mata Hari: Tigress at the City Gates, So Low, Hunger’s Brides, Doing Leonard Cohen, In Klezskavania, Death In New Orleans, Somalia Yellow, The History of Wild Theatre, Thunderstruck, Featherland, Letters To Wendy’s, High Performance Radio: Andrew Allan’s Chair, Kawasaki Exit, Taking Shakespeare, People You May Know, Munich Now, What The Thunder Said, and recently Calgary, I Love You, but You’re Killing Me.

Blake has collaborated with Bruce McCulloch on a screen adaptation of Barbara Gowdy’s Mr. Sandman, and the stage production of Young Drunk Punk, and directed a music video from Dream Machine for Bravo!FACT.

On July 1, 2015 Blake was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada, one of Canada’s highest civilian honours.