about
Tabia Lau is a Chinese-Canadian screenwriter, playwright and scholar.
Born and raised in Montreal, her plays have been seen, heard, produced, and commissioned largely throughout both the United States and Canada, and her plays and musicals have made her a Five-Time Fringe Festival Patron's Pick Award winner. She has also worked extensively as a reader and producer with the New York Musical Theatre Festival and Gilbert & Sullivan troupes both in Montreal and New York City.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Lau is a member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, Dramatists Guild of America, and proud MFA Playwriting graduate of Columbia University, where she studied under Chuck Mee, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl, Zakiyyah Alexander, and David Henry Hwang.
She is also 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.
Born and raised in Montreal, her plays have been seen, heard, produced, and commissioned largely throughout both the United States and Canada, and her plays and musicals have made her a Five-Time Fringe Festival Patron's Pick Award winner. She has also worked extensively as a reader and producer with the New York Musical Theatre Festival and Gilbert & Sullivan troupes both in Montreal and New York City.
Stories that move her have always spanned around topics of
family ties, sexuality, duty, faith, loneliness, loss, and love.
Lau is a member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, Dramatists Guild of America, and proud MFA Playwriting graduate of Columbia University, where she studied under Chuck Mee, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl, Zakiyyah Alexander, and David Henry Hwang.
She is also 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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