Laura Philipps. Producer & Production Manager.
Laura Philipps is a Toronto-based arts professional working across theatre, dance, opera and multimedia performance works. Her practice focuses primarily on new work development, supporting creative teams to fulfill their artistic goals as a Producer/Production Manager/Stage Manager.
Laura has been a guest speaker at Centennial College, Humber College, PACTCon, CITT Rendez-vous, Mid-America Theatre Conference, and was a Hart House Theatre Festival Adjudicator. She has held leadership positions with Pratibha Arts, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Theatre Centre, Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Luminato Festival, The Bentway Conservancy, Canadian Urban Institute and Coal Mine Theatre.
Current Projects:
Producer of National Creation Fund Supported ‘What Brings You In’ by Leslie Ting Productions (2024/2025).
Recent Works
Stage Manager, Production Manager, Associate Producer of Honey I’m Home, Lester Trips (Theatre)
Production Manager of The Hobbit (2024) for the Canadian Children’s Opera Company
Production Sustainability Coordinator, Women of the Fur Trade Co-Production with:
National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Native Earth Performing Arts
Producer of Canadian Urban Institute’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit
Project Management at The Bentway: Nuit Blanche, Howl’oween, Ghost Landing
Producer of Perceptual Archaeology (or How To Travel Blind)
Project Manager of Earth Dreams: A Summer Party for Grief & Love
Production Manager of Anahita’s Republic by Bustle and Beast
Producer of Henry G20
Producer of Rella’s Cambrian Dream
1st AD of Content Farm by Substance Ranch
Co-Producer and Co-Writer of GAAR: The Musical
Stage Manager of Moon Merge
Producer/Production Manager of No Woman’s Land by Jaberi Dance Theatre
Production Manager of Between Riverside and Crazy and Production Manager/Set Builder of Knives in Hens for Coal Mine Theatre
Stage Manager of Mr. Truth and Safe and Sorry by Lester Trips (Theatre).
Video by the National Arts Centre, highlighting my role as Production Sustainability Coordinator for Women of the Fur Trade Co-Production with: National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Native Earth Performing Arts
Dora-Award Winning Knives in Hens at Coal Mine Theatre. Set Design by Kaitlin Hickey. Production Management and Set Construction by Laura Philipps. Images by Dahlia Katz. GIF by Laura Philipps. 2019
Legacy and the future come together in Sadhana/Tarana, an event curated by Pratibha Arts, featuring emerging and senior artists in Kathak dance and Indian classical vocal music. Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Original Sound Composition Dance Division Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Henry G20: Theatre in a Mobile App. Henry G20 premiered as a digital theatre project delivered via Audio Drama and Augmented Reality in the Henry G20 Mobile App during the 2021 Luminato Festival Toronto. Image by Debbie Deer.
Anahita's Republic by Bustle and Beast, Production Managed by Laura Philipps. Dora-Award-Nominated Set Design by Sim Suzer, Lighting Design by Siobhan Smith, in the Factory Studio Theatre. Image by Taylor Long Photography. 2022.
Rella's Cambrian Dream Prototype Performance at Harbourfront Centre's JUNIOR Festival 2022. Produced by Laura Philipps. Environmental Design by Jennifer Goodman. Photo by www.callbackheadshots.com
Two rogue bots teach themselves to be human on the internet. Nothing is original, and clicks are king. Speculative fiction meets cringe comedy, unfolding in the doom scroll. Content Farm is Written and created by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton. 2022.
Earth Dreams by Nocturnal Medicine at The Bentway Conservancy. Photo by Ruzter Media. 2023.
Ghost Landing Installation by Caterwaul Theatre at The Bentway. Photos by Mila Bright Zlatanovic. 2023.