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:
VITALS produced by Second Act Actor Productions at Factory Theatre.
Producer of National Creation Fund Supported ‘What Brings You In’ by Leslie Ting Productions.
Stage Manager / Associate Producer of PROVISIONS, the final instalment of a body-horror cringe-comedy trilogy by Lester Trips (Theatre) including HONEY I’M HOME (2024) and PUBLIC CONSUMPTION (2025) at Factory Theatre.
Up Next
VITALS by Rosamund Small
Starring Dr. Janet McMordie
May 2 - 10, 2026 at Factory Theatre in Toronto
VITALS by Rosamund Small is a powerful one-woman show exploring the lived experience of a Toronto paramedic. Originally performed in 2014, VITALS is reimagined for 2026 to reflect how healthcare has been profoundly reshaped over the past 12 years. Performed and embodied for the first time by a healthcare worker who lived through it, Dr. Janet McMordie.
Based on real interviews with paramedics, physicians and nurses, VITALS examines life-and-death calls, bureaucracy, burnout, and the emotional toll of frontline health care. Director Alaine Hutton (Lester Trips) brings the text to life where the body becomes the site of memory, strain, and resilience.
Prior to each performance, enjoy live music by frontline workers in the lobby of the theatre beginning 1 hour prior to curtain.
Select performances will feature post-show talkbacks exploring themes such as theatre and the health humanities (with University of Toronto faculty), improvisation and medical care, and post-pandemic mental health (with a practicing psychotherapist).
Proceeds from ticket sales will support Frontline Families Canada, a non-profit that provides support and programs for the families of fallen first responders.
Dr. Janet McMordie – Performer
Rosamund Small – Playwright
Alaine Hutton – Director& Dramaturg
Chris Holtkamp – Associate Director
Theodore Belc - Lighting Designer
S. Quinn Hoodless and Drew Thomas - Sound Designers
Stephanie Taylor - Stage Manager
Laura Philipps – Producer
Mary-Kate Terepka – Paramedic Consultant & Community Liaison
Kaleigh O’Brien – Paramedic Consultant for 2014 Premiere
Produced by Second Act Actor Productions | 75 Minutes | Age Recommendation 14+ | Content warning: This play contains explicit descriptions of violence, gore, sexual assault and self-harm including suicide. It is not recommended for younger audiences.
Performance Schedule
Saturday May 2, 2026: 7:30pm
Sunday May 3, 2026: 2:00pm (post-show talkback)
Thursday May 7, 2026: 7:30pm (post-show talkback)
Friday May 8, 2026: 7:30pm (post-show talkback)
Saturday May 9, 2026: 2:00pm
Saturday May 9, 2026: 7:30pm (post-show talkback)
Sunday May 10, 2026: 2:00pm
Recent Works
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.