about
Tabia Lau is a Chinese-Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and scholar.
Originally from Montreal, 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 adapted 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. She has also recently joined the writing staff for an upcoming half-hour television series produced by Reality Distortion Field and CBC Gem.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Lau is a proud member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, Dramatists Guild of America, and proud MFA Playwriting graduate of 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 research interests include narrative theory, theatre and film history, queer and feminist representation, interfaith and comparative religious studies, and fan culture in new media.
Originally from Montreal, 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 adapted 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. She has also recently joined the writing staff for an upcoming half-hour television series produced by Reality Distortion Field and CBC Gem.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Lau is a proud member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, Dramatists Guild of America, and proud MFA Playwriting graduate of 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 research interests include narrative theory, theatre and film history, queer and feminist representation, interfaith and comparative religious studies, and fan culture in new media.
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