Director, arts administrator, producer. Trained in Michigan as well as at Ryerson, and active in Toronto’s LIFT, queer-friendly Hayes has been a prolific director of personal short films in various modes and sensibilities, comic, experimental documentary, political and narrative since the mid-nineties. Lez Be Friends (2000, 13) narrates confusions and ironies around sexual labels and perceptions, while the prize-winning Dike (1996, 9) tackles compulsory heterosexuality and excessive perspiration.