Laurie Fyffe

First Name: Laurie
Last Name: Fyffe
Email: fyffel@algonquincollege.com
Title: Professor

Laurie Fyffe is a playwright, dramaturg, and actor. Throughout the summer of 2022, Laurie has been a dramaturg and writing mentor with Ottawa Youth Infringement Festival and her short play The Ring was produced by PlanB Productions (paired with Chekhov’s The Proposal) at the 2022 Ottawa Fringe. Laurie’s most recent play; Beowulf In Afghanistan was presented online at the 2021 Ottawa Fringe Festival and is scheduled for a workshop with the Great Canadian Theatre Company in the fall of 2022. Her play, Exciting Cause, will premiere in collaboration with TACTICS in the spring of 2023. Other plays have been produced at the Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Blyth Festival, and Theatre Kingston. From 2014 to 2017, Laurie was Managing Artistic Director of Ottawa StoryTellers (OST), where she adapted James Bartleman’s Raisin Wine (2014), and co-wrote A Winter Tale: The Journey of the Blind Harper (2015). In March of 2018, Laurie’s play Mirage: The Arabian Adventure of Gertrude Bell received a reading as part of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival, and Being Helen received a workshop and public reading courtesy of the Ergo Pink Arts Festival. Laurie’s short play In Kabul premiered at New Theatre of Ottawa’s 2012 Short Play Festival and was subsequently produced at InspiraTo in Toronto, and the Short & Sweet Festival in Sydney, Australia. In 2010, Laurie received her MA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa, where she subsequently taught the Principles of Play Analysis. Since the fall of 2017, Laurie has taught Scriptwriting for Actors at Algonquin College, School of Media Design. Laurie is a member of Canadian Actors’ Equity (CAEA) and the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PG).