Laura Quigley is an award-winning educator, performer, playwright, and director. She will graduate with an MFA in Performance with a Specialization in Voice and Speech Pedagogy from Wayne State University in May, 2026, and she holds a Master's in Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph, a BFA in Acting from Simon Fraser University, and she 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. She directed a staged reading of Erin Shield's If We Were Birds in Detroit, produced by Detroit's Renaissance City Rep Theatre, August 2025. Currently, she is directing a new solo performance in collaboration with Marta Rosell Prim, which premiered in Lleida, Spain in May 2025 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.

Rooted in somatic approaches to artistic expression, Laura’s research centres on embodied learning, ensemble practice, and storytelling. Laura has taught more than 40 performing arts courses across Canada and the United States, including Concordia University, the University at Buffalo, Wayne State University, the University of Windsor, St.Clair College, Universidad de California Baja Sur, the Create Institute and Toronto Metropolitan University. Laura's work has been published in Canadian Theatre Review and presented at ATHE in Detroit, the Fitzmaurice Voicework Symposium in New York City, the Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) at the University of Toronto, Revolution They Wrote Festival in Montreal, and the National Voice Association Conference at Brock University.