Laura Philipps. Producer & Production Manager.
Laura Philipps is a Toronto-based Producer and Production Manager of theatre, dance, and multimedia performance works. Her practice centres around new work development, creative leadership, and process design. She is part of Blind-led arts collective Unsightly Arts (fka Fire and Rescue Arts) that produced “Perceptual Archaeology or How To Travel Blind” with Crow’s Theatre (Best New Play Dora Nominee, 2023). She works regularly with Lester Trips (Theatre) in theatre and series TV, including “Content Farm” (CBC Gem) and a 2024-2026 sci-fi body horror trilogy at Factory Theatre. As co-founder of Action Pants, she works on research with University of Calgary into new creation methods integrating human-computer interaction and live performance.
Current Projects:
Producer of ‘Rella’s Cambrian Dream’ by Action Pants Arts, with
Producer with Leslie Ting Productions developing multimedia performance work.
Stage Manager / Associate Producer Lester Trips’ FORCE QUIT body horror trilogy of shows originally presented at Factory Theatre: Honey I'm Home (2024), Public Consumption (2025), and Provisions (upcoming November 2026). Each show starts with the premise of a person working a digital job incompatible with having a human body, while contending with an intrusive AI presence.
Provisions
November 13–29 2026
A Lester Trips (Theatre) Production in Association with Factory Theatre
Created by Lauren Gillis & Alaine Hutton
Experimental, Body Horror, Cringe Comedy
Have you ever danced on the head of a pin? – the last text sent by the cast and crew of a failed reality tv show set on the moon before they stopped sending footage and went silent.
On earth, an ordinary broke person in the microgig economy accepts an odd job: accompany an agentic AI to the moon to retrieve the people and data from the failed lunar reality tv venture, and return them to earth before they suffocate. She soon discovers the inhabitants are not easily convinced to leave an erotic choose-your-own virtual reality simulation to board a space megabus back to burning earth. A secret VR love affair, a nun digging a gooneral, and all manner of bodily and metaphysical decomposition confirm suspicions that this gig extends far beyond occasionally assisting a bot with slippery door handles.
Recent Works
Producer of ‘Vitals’ by Rosamund Small for Second Act Actor Productions.
Production Manager of The Herald (2026) by It Could Still Happen and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Associate Producer for Rainbow on Mars (2025) with Outside The March.
Production Manager + 1st AD of Content Farm (CBC Gem) and DAYGAMERS (in development) with Lester Trips.
Producer of Breaking Boundaries in Ballet: Swan Lake, Research Project by Lisa Cox at Toronto Metropolitan University, funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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
Co-Producer and Co-Writer of GAAR: The Musical
Stage Manager of Moon Merge at The Bentway
Producer/Production Manager of No Woman’s Land by Jaberi Dance Theatre
Production Manager of Between Riverside and Crazy and Knives in Hens for Coal Mine Theatre.
Stage Manager of Mr. Truth and Safe and Sorry by Lester Trips.
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.