Alison Lawrence

Playwright

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Alison is a playwright, actor and independent theatre producer. Her play Onions Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes premiered in 2024 at both 4th Line Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and her play Packing Up was part of the Foster Festival’s 2025 New Play Festival. Other plays include The Thing Between Us (shortlisted for the Playwright’s Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award), The Catering Queen, And All For Love and Too Close to Home. She co-wrote the play bittergirl, the book Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped (Penguin Canada, Plume US), and Bittergirl – the musical as part of a long collaboration with Annabel Fitzsimmons and Mary Francis Moore. The Catering Queen and bittergirl are published by Scirocco Drama. Alison is also an actor and has worked extensively onstage across the country and was most recently seen onscreen in Ghosts (CBS), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Mayday (Discovery) and as a recurring character on Amazon Prime’s The Lake. She is an alumna of the Banff Playwrights Lab and a MacDowell Fellow. www.alisonlawrence.ca

Works by Alison Lawrence

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bittergirl

By Annabel Griffiths Fitzsimmons & Alison Lawrence & Mary Francis Moore

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bittergirl – the musical

By Annabel Griffiths Fitzsimmons & Alison Lawrence & Mary Francis Moore

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Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes

By Alison Lawrence

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The Catering Queen

By Alison Lawrence

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Published Works

(Praise for bittergirl:)

Go see bittergirl...They’re having a blast dredging up their own - and others - painful experience of heartbreak... They’re getting the last laugh and sharing it with an audience...these women are fabulous - what idiot would dump them?

Glenn Sumi
NOW Magazine

The intertwined word play and quick gear shifts between song bites seem so effortless, you could almost take it for granted. But don’t. A flashy, high-energy show…

Lennie MacPherson
The Guardian

(Praise for The Catering Queen:)

This playwright knows her canapés! If you’ve been yearning to see a well-made comedy again - you know, the kind with a beginning, middle and end and a whole lot of laughs in between - then you ought to run, not walk, to The Catering Queen.

Richard Ouzounian
Toronto Star