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BIO

Laura Quigley is an award-winning educator, performer, playwright, and director. She holds a Master's in Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph, a BFA in Acting from Simon Fraser University, and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.

Laura’s theatre work has been produced across Canada, off-Broadway in New York, in Wellington, New Zealand, and Lleida, Spain. Her play The Waves, written, performed, and produced by Laura, dramaturged by Judith Thompson, and directed by Clea Minaker, was produced at the 2019 SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto and is published in The Canadian Theatre Review (Issue 196, Spring 2024).

Between 2016 and 2020, Laura directed five mainstage productions at Concordia University. She co-directed Into the Woods alongside Michael J. Barnes at Wayne State University in 2024 and will direct Erin Shields’ Paradise Lost at Wayne State in Spring 2026. Currently, she is directing a new solo performance in collaboration with Marta Rosell Prim, which premiered in Lleida, Spain, as part of the award-winning BoisLits international festival of performance. Laura’s new short film, Songs for My Daughters, premiered in Detroit, Michigan in March 2025.

Laura’s research explores the human voice: as an instrument, a tool for creation, and as activism. Her areas of focus include solo performance for the actor, devised theatre, public speaking for non-actors, and voice training for pregnant women. She has taught voice, acting, devising, and solo performance at Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University, St. Clair College, the University of Windsor, and Wayne State University, and has assisted Catherine Fitzmaurice and other master teachers at the Fitzmaurice Voicework® Certification in Los Angeles.

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