Devine served as the artistic director of Horseshoes and Handgrenades Theatre Company between 2004 and 2019. Devine's 2011 play
Re:Union was based on the real-life story of
Norman Morrison, a
Baltimore Quaker who
self-immolated below
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's
Pentagon office in 1965. The play imagines a meeting between Morrison's daughter Emily and Robert McNamara. First produced in 2011, it was published by Scirocco Drama in 2013. At
Ottawa's Magnetic North Theatre Festival in 2015,
Re:Union won the Prix Rideau Award for Ottawa's Best Production. Devine's next play,
Except in the Unlikely Event of War, premiered in 2013, was a political drama and
satire which discusses war and government manipulation of the media. It draws inspiration from
The Report from Iron Mountain, a satirical book which asserted that the United States government believed war was necessary to maintain its power. Devine's 2016 play
Daisy is a political drama set during the
1964 United States presidential election. The play depicts the events surrounding the presidential election and the controversial
'Daisy' advertisement of
Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign.
Daisy premiered at
Seattle's
ACT Theatre in 2016. The play received the Broadway World Seattle Critic's Choice Award for Best New Play and was nominated for a Gregory Award for Best New Play. It was later published as a book by Talonbooks in 2017. Devine's play, titled ''When There's Nothing Left to Burn'' was released in 2017. The play was by the events of the 2014
Revolution of Dignity in
Ukraine, and drew further inspiration from the
2012 Quebec student protests. It depicts ordinary citizens living in the midst of violent political upheaval. The play won the
University of Lethbridge's Fiction at Fifty competition. In 2017, Devine took a position with the
Canada Council for the Arts, a federal government institution dedicated to funding the arts. ==Politics==