Laura McLean is a director, producer, dramaturg, and teacher based in Vancouver BC.
As a director she has worked on productions around Canada and the UK. She has worked for such companies as Pacific Theatre, Rumble Theatre, City Stage New West, Larrikin Productions, Caravan Farm Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic.
She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Delinquent Theatre an award winning theatre company that creates and develops new Canadian work that has toured across the country.
Laura has frequently worked as a director/dramaturg on the premier productions of new scripts. She has also worked on the development of numerous plays through Delinquent Theatre’s Playwrights in Residency program. As well as having been a guest dramaturg for Playwrights Theatre Centre’s writers colony.
She has been teaching and inspiring a love of theatre in children aged two to eighteen for over a decade.
She did her undergrad in theatre at UBC and her masters in directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. She also studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.