fbpx ldb | HowlRound Theatre Commons
Profile picture for user ldb
Connect:
Lyndsey Bourne
she/they

Lyndsey Bourne is a playwright, educator and doula. 

Lyndsey Bourne (she/they) is a Canadian playwright, educator and doula. Her plays have been presented and developed with The Tank, La MaMa, New Georges, Rattlestick, The Hearth, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, The Mercury Store, Manhattan Theater Club, The Civilians, Page 73 and The Public Theater among others. Lyndsey currently teaches Writing and Devising for Performance at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU Tisch Drama) and practices beekeeping at her community garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn. They have held residencies through EST/Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Play Group, The Civilian’s 2024-2025 R&D group, Page 73’s 2025 writers group, a New Georges affiliated artist and member of the New Georges Jam, a 2022 New Georges Audrey Resident, a 2022 Writer in Residence at The Ojai Playwrights Conference, a 2021 Artist in Residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant, a member of The Banff Centre For The Arts 2025 Playwrights’ Lab and a MacDowell Fellow. Born and raised in North Vancouver and Penticton, BC, Lyndsey is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College (with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney). 

A promotional graphic for the Nonfiction Theatre Forum podcast.
Podcast

Process and New Play Development with the Civilians' R&D Group

9 December 2025

Ash Marinaccio and the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group discuss investigative theatre, how artists blend research, interviews, and emotional truth to create new work. They discuss new play development, ethics, community, and why “live bodies in a room” still matter.

Subscribe to HowlRound

Sign up for our daily, weekly, or quarterly emails so you never miss the latest theatre conversations.

Sign me up

Support HowlRound

We fundraise to keep all our programs free and open and to pay our contributors. Thank you to all who make our work possible!

Donate today