Laura Lussier
(ACTRA / CAEA / UDA)
Bilingual and multitalented, Laura Lussier has worked as an actor, director, producer, writer, coach, workshop facilitator and TV personality for 20 years. Known for her enthusiasm and leadership, Laura has established herself as a force on the local and national arts scenes. She is passionate about the creation of new works and exploring the intersection of cultures, generations, languages and disciplines. Collaboration, love, joie de vivre and courage are at the heart of her artistic practice.
Although Laura’s first love is the theatre, where she still creates quite a bit, she now works primarily in the fast-paced world of television. She started out in front of the camera, travelling from coast to coast to coast, shooting in urban and remote locations all across Canada. She’s appeared in over 250 episodes of various TV shows that have aired across the country, including most recently Gluten Free Like Me with Laura Lussier (Bell Media), Le Monde de Gabrielle Roy (ICI TOU.TV), Edgar (Manitomédia & Zone 3), L’Histoire s’écrit au présent and Tout Inclus (ICI Radio-Canada Télé). For 8 seasons, she had the pleasure of representing Western and Northern Canada on ICI Radio-Canada TV’s 100% local, which was shot in Ottawa and aired nationally. Laura also had the privilege of hosting over 130 episodes of Viens voir ici! (TVA), a national travel and culture show that showcased the richness and diversity of French Canada outside Québec.
More recently, she transitioned into the world of writing and directing for television. She has directed more than 70 episodes of various TV shows, the latest being the hilarious series C’est moi qui décide!, which she wrote and directed with Wookey Films for Unis TV. Watch the trailer to get a taste of the craziness of this wonderful series which was nominated for two Prix Gémeaux.
When not on set, Laura can be found at the theatre. Trained as an actor, she has appeared in over 30 theatrical productions and she branched out into directing in 2009. She has since been at the helm of over a dozen projects. For the Théâtre Cercle Molière, she’s directed the World Premieres of David Arnason, Yan Dallaire, Claude Dorge, and Gérard Jean’s L’Article 23 et sa suite, Rébecca Déraspe’s Plus (+) que toi and two plays by Danielle Séguin-Tétreault: Et que ça saute! and Que faire d’Albert? / What to do with Albert?, which was produced as a bilingual partnership with Prairie Theatre Exchange. New projects are in the works for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 seasons, so stay tuned!
Laura dabbles in writing and translation for the theatre as well. Most recently, she was a member of a cross-Canada team of ten writers on a multilingual mega-project, Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show, a co-production between Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts (Ottawa), Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental (Montréal), Théâtre Cercle Molière (Winnipeg) and La Troupe du Jour (Saskatoon) in collaboration with Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (Montréal). The play was published in English and in French by Talonbooks in 2021.
Since 2011, this energetic artist has been involved in theatre for children as the founding artistic director of Théâtre p’tits bouts d’choux, as well as a founding member of the Plé Collective, a group of female artists that creates theatre for young audiences. From 2016 to 2021, she created PLÉ with the collective, a trilingual play (English, French and American Sign Language) with the support of Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP), Young People’s Theatre (Toronto), The Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council. PLÉ opened at MTYP in March 2021 and is now streaming on Children’s Theatre Digital, a company based in London, UK. It can be viewed from anywhere in the world at www.childrenstheatredigital.com !
Laura still finds time to lead workshops across Manitoba for students and professionals.
For more information, please see Laura’s C.V.
Laura is a Certified Professional Success Coach as well! Please visit
www.coaching.lauralussier.com for details.
