Louise is an artist advocate, prairie nuisance, and two-time Sterling Award winning playwright. Based in Alberta on Treaty 6 and 7 Territory, she is the recipient of the ATP/Enbridge Playwright’s Award, was shortlisted for John Palmer Award from the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, and is the recipient of the 2023 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund Award. Original plays include OCD, Functional, GEMINI, and Undressed, which premiered with Alberta Theatre Projects in 2022. Louise remains active in the wider community by way of dramaturgy, teaching, and sector research; and in 2021 she released the long-range national study on new play development, "Surveying The Landscape" (commissioned by Alberta Playwright's Network). She is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, inaugural Citadel Theatre Dramaturgy Lab, and recently completed her MFA in Theatre Practice from the University of Alberta.

New play development, research based creation, sector research, Production dramaturgy, immersive and experience based theatre.

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