Laura Quigley

  • Certification Level: Associate
  • Geographic Location: BELGIUM, Antwerp (Naedts)
  • Languages: Danish, English
  • Specialization: Acting Corporate Training Movement Presence Private Coaching Public Speaking Shakespeare Singing/Songwriting
  • Institution Name

Associate Teacher (2014)

Freelance Theatre Maker, Adjunct and Sessional Instructor
Windsor / Lakeshore, Ontario

Other Locations Served: Toronto, Montreal
Primary Institution: University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario
Other Institutions: CREATE Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University, St.Clair College

Phone: 519-965-0816
Email Address: laura.dorothy.quigley@gmail.com

Website: http://lauraquigley.ca

Laura Quigley is an award-winning educator, performer, playwright, and director whose research centers on breath, voice, and birth. An Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, she holds a Master’s in Theatre Studies (University of Guelph) and a BFA in Acting (Simon Fraser University), and will complete her MFA in Performance with a specialization in Voice and Speech Pedagogy at Wayne State University in May 2026.

Trained as a doula in 2015 with the Association of Ontario Doulas and DONA, Laura completed her first Master’s as a new mother to two young daughters, then aged two and six months. Her thesis, Woman Must Write Herself: The Waves, combines a staged play on early motherhood and postpartum depression with research into labour support inspired by Ina May Gaskin, her doula training, and her ongoing work in somatic voice practices.

Determined to prepare for an unmedicated hospital birth, Laura immersed herself in Lamaze, the Bradley Method, Hypnobirthing, and voice training. At her first midwife appointment, she declared she would use breath and voice to manage contractions, only to be told labour wards are often silent. That moment sparked her inquiry: Why was it so quiet in the labour ward? Where were the labouring women’s voices?

Compelled by these questions, Laura’s work addresses taboos around the labouring female body and the isolation often felt in birth and early motherhood. She explores how this silence can echo across generations, asking: What does the silence into which my daughters were born say about the world they are inheriting? What will I teach them about the power of their bodies and voices?

Laura’s solo and devised performances have been presented across Canada, off-Broadway (New York), in New Zealand, and Spain. Her play The Waves was featured at Toronto’s SummerWorks Theatre Festival (2019) and published in Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2024). She teaches voice, solo performance, and devising at institutions including Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Windsor, and Wayne State University.

Degrees & Institutions: MA Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, BFA Acting, Simon Fraser University

Languages: English, French
Specializations: Acting, Corporate Training, Movement, Presence, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Shakespeare, Singing