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Laurie Dumont-Bal is a Montreal-based biracial theatre artist with Indian and French-Canadian settler origins. She works as a playwright, director, playback theatre artist and educator.
For the 2025-2026 season, she is participating in Imago Theatre’s 2.0 Producing Mentorship Program, for which the cohort is producing Simmer, a short works performance festival. Laurie has directed multiple staged readings of new plays for Teesri Duniya’s Fireworks Festival, and for Infinithéâtre’s open-air reading series Park N Play.
Since 2023, Laurie’s play “Here” has received support from the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Mentorship Program, Imago Theatre’s Nested Circles artist residency and Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks Playwriting Development Program. In April 2024, Laurie directed a staged public reading for “Here” with Teesri Duniya. In 2025, online public readings took place with the Playwrights Guild of Canada and with Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario.
Laurie worked as a playwright for “Something Will Survive/Quelque Chose Survivra”, a bilingual verbatim theatre play on climate change. The project, led by Yvette Nolan and Joel Bernbaum, was created by a team at Imago Theatre in collaboration with wâhkôhtowin Project. A public reading was presented in December 2024.
Laurie acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for her work with Arrivals Legacy Project at Playwrights Workshop Montreal.
