Lyndsey Bourne is a Canadian writer and educator. Her plays explore the explicit body and the body in relation to climate, capital, and care. Bourne currently teaches writing and devising for performance at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU Tisch). She also practices beekeeping at her community garden in Flatbush.
Bourne’s plays have been presented or developed at Rattlestick Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theater Club, The Public Theater, and others.
She is a member of the Obie award winning writers group EST/Youngblood, a resident artist and member of Ars Nova’s Play Group, a member of The Civilian’s 2024-2025 R and D group, a member of Page 73’s 2025 writers group, a New Georges affiliated artist – a 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, and is the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant. She holds a B.F.A. from NYU, and a M.F.A. from Brooklyn College where she studied with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.
While at MacDowell, Bourne worked on her play, Mabel's Mine, about big oil from the perspective of workers, centering the effects of extractive, open-pit mining in the lives and bodies of two sisters working in the Canadian Oil Sands. Upcoming presentations of Mabel's Mine will take place in 2025 at The Banff Center for The Arts and in NYC as part of The Civilian's Findings Series of New Work.
