Lyndsey bourne

she/they

playwright

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).