2007–present
Virgo next created a boxing drama, Poor Boy's Game, starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland. It was first screened at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, in the Panorama Special Section, and was presented as a Special Selection at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Poor Boy's Game earned Virgo a nomination in 2007 for the Directors Guild of Canada Outstanding Achievement Craft Award for direction of a motion picture film. In a review for Variety, critic Leslie Felperin praised the film's treatment of race, identity and sexuality, declaring it to be Virgo's best work up to that time.
Virgo co-wrote and directed the six-part miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel The Book of Negroes (2015), starring Aunjanue Ellis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Jane Alexander and Lyriq Bent. The series aired to wide acclaim and a record-breaking 1.7 million Canadian viewers in January 2015 on CBC in Canada. It premiered in February 2015 in the United States, drawing landmark ratings for BET (Black Entertainment Television). The series won 11 Canadian Screen Awards; two Critics' Choice Television Awards nominations for Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series (Aunjanue Ellis); three 2015 NAACP Image Awards nominations for Best Miniseries, Best Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Best Actress (Ellis) and a Best Writing in a TV Movie or Miniseries award for Virgo and Lawrence Hill. The Book of Negroes was also named one of 60 finalists for the 2016 Peabody Awards.
Virgo's television credits include The Wire for HBO, The L Word for Showtime, The Get Down for Netflix, and American Crime for ABC. He directed several episodes of the OWN drama series Greenleaf (2016), on which he served as executive producer with Oprah Winfrey.
From 2010 to 2014, Virgo and the Canadian Film Centre co-hosted a series of annual talks to celebrate Black History Month in Toronto, with guests Lee Daniels, Norman Jewison, Spike Lee, Pam Grier, John Singleton and Chris Tucker.
In 2021 Virgo began production on Brother, an adaptation of the award-winning novel by David Chariandy. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022 and was nominated at the 24th Annual Black Reel Awards for Outstanding International Film.
In November 2021, he was announced as the director of the upcoming Black Cyclone, a biopic on legendary cyclist Major Taylor, for Minds Eye Entertainment.
