about
Tabia Lau has developed pieces of work as a playwright, producer, and literary manager. Her plays have been seen, heard, produced, and commissioned largely throughout both the United States and Canada, and her commissioned musicals have made her a two time Toronto Fringe Festival Patron's Pick Award winner. She has also worked extensively with Gilbert & Sullivan troupes both in Montreal and New York City.
Most recently, Lau contributed to the new Canadian Anthology of Queer Women's Performance and Plays, Queer/Play, edited by Dr. Moynan King. Cutaway, which Lau developed at Columbia University, was read at Red Bull Theatre in July 2014 and was published in their 2016 collection of short plays. John 8, runner-up for Infinitheatre's Write-On-Q competition was produced at Signature Theatre in New York City in April 2015. Her LGBT short In The Water has been produced and read at ally companies in Missouri, Florida, and New Orleans.
Stories that move her have always spaned around topics of family ties, sexuality, duty, faith,
loneliness, loss, and love.
Originally from Montreal, she is an Associate Artist with Made In August LLC, proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and MFA Playwriting graduate at Columbia University, studying with Chuck Mee, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and David Henry Hwang.
She is currently a PhD candidate at York University's Theatre & Performance Studies program in Toronto, Canada.
Most recently, Lau contributed to the new Canadian Anthology of Queer Women's Performance and Plays, Queer/Play, edited by Dr. Moynan King. Cutaway, which Lau developed at Columbia University, was read at Red Bull Theatre in July 2014 and was published in their 2016 collection of short plays. John 8, runner-up for Infinitheatre's Write-On-Q competition was produced at Signature Theatre in New York City in April 2015. Her LGBT short In The Water has been produced and read at ally companies in Missouri, Florida, and New Orleans.
Stories that move her have always spaned around topics of family ties, sexuality, duty, faith,
loneliness, loss, and love.
Originally from Montreal, she is an Associate Artist with Made In August LLC, proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and MFA Playwriting graduate at Columbia University, studying with Chuck Mee, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and David Henry Hwang.
She is currently a PhD candidate at York University's Theatre & Performance Studies program in Toronto, Canada.
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