Laura Teasdale
Pronouns: She/Her
Crafts:
- Adaptations
- Collective Creation
- Dramaturgy/Dramaturgies
- Masks
- Musicals
- Puppetry
- TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/laura.teasdale.56/
Photographer: Justin Gregg
Born in Antigonish Nova Scotia, Laura Teasdale studied at Acadia and Concordia. She worked in Quebec for 27 years as an actor, playwright, musician, cartoon voice, director, teacher and clown for such companies as The Centaur, Geordie, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, The Segal, Cinar, Ubisoft, CBC and NTS. Since returning home in 2019, she wrote, directed and acted for Festival Antigonish & Mulgrave Road Theatre and was nominated for a Merritt Award and three ECMAs. Her specialties include historical, social, outdoor & site-specific theatre.
Laura’s had 19 plays produced including Being Hank & Patsy, Home Child, Robin Hood (cowritten with Andrea Boyd), The Unreliable Narrator, For Love nor Money & radio play Pete Poirier’s Gift Exchange. She was commissioned by author Louise Penny to write Murder by the Book, an adaptable script offered royalty free to libraries worldwide for fundraising.
