Laura Burke is a mad-identified writer/actor/performance poet based in Kjipuktuk, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and debuted her first written performance project, Voices, in San Francisco in 2011. With the Doppler Effect, she wrote, performed and toured Heartwood, a confessional one woman show about her journey as a psychiatric survivor.
An excerpt from her play “Iris” was presented at the Soloicious Festival and at The Women in Theatre Festival. Laura was also a 2017 member of the Eastern Front Theatre Playwright’s Unit. In 2018, Laura worked with Tangled Art + Disability’s Flourishing Project to create a theatre workshop production of Mad Ones, a project that Arts Nova Scotia and Playwright’s Atlantic Resource Centre had previously supported in its early creation. Laura also works in the mental health field, and in all of her work, she aims to orient to what is possible.
I look forward to the opportunity through Sync Canada, to collaborate with other artists in the development of new creative media that is accessible, innovative, and speaks to a broader range of human experience.