about
Tabia Lau is a Chinese-Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and literary reader.
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 has been adapting Sophocles's Antigone in connection with Theatre@York in a special commissioned piece to feature BA and BFA students of the program's Theatre & Performance Studies Program.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Originally from Montreal, Lau is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and proud 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, studying with Dr. Marlis Schweitzer.
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 has been adapting Sophocles's Antigone in connection with Theatre@York in a special commissioned piece to feature BA and BFA students of the program's Theatre & Performance Studies Program.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Originally from Montreal, Lau is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and proud 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, studying with Dr. Marlis Schweitzer.
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