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 was accepted into the Nightwood Theatre Write From the Hip Program in Toronto, Ontario, where she will be developing her new play Tangled. She wrote and starred in an LGBT adapdation of Pride and Prejudice, Suspicious Activity, which premiered in Kingston, Ontario. She 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.
Stories that move her have always spanned 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, 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 was accepted into the Nightwood Theatre Write From the Hip Program in Toronto, Ontario, where she will be developing her new play Tangled. She wrote and starred in an LGBT adapdation of Pride and Prejudice, Suspicious Activity, which premiered in Kingston, Ontario. She 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.
Stories that move her have always spanned 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, studying with Dr. Marlis Schweitzer.
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