Katy Laurance

Katy Laurance is an award-winning performer, storyteller, and playwright based in Anchorage, Alaska. She has appeared as a featured storyteller for The Moth Mainstage and The Moth Podcast (Shells on a Beach), and as a repeat storyteller and host for Arctic Entries in Anchorage. Her plays have been selected for the Valdez Theater Conference Play Lab for the past four years, and her play The Good Word, was a semi-finalist in the 2023 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. Her play What We Inherit was a finalist for Amphibian Stage's 2025 Sparkfest, is currently a semi-finalist for SheNYC’s 2025 Festival.

Katy has made multiple starring appearances with Cyrano’s Theatre Company (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Fallen Angels, The Importance of Being Earnest), Scared Scriptless Improv (performer and...

Katy Laurance is an award-winning performer, storyteller, and playwright based in Anchorage, Alaska. She has appeared as a featured storyteller for The Moth Mainstage and The Moth Podcast (Shells on a Beach), and as a repeat storyteller and host for Arctic Entries in Anchorage. Her plays have been selected for the Valdez Theater Conference Play Lab for the past four years, and her play The Good Word, was a semi-finalist in the 2023 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. Her play What We Inherit was a finalist for Amphibian Stage's 2025 Sparkfest, is currently a semi-finalist for SheNYC’s 2025 Festival.

Katy has made multiple starring appearances with Cyrano’s Theatre Company (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Fallen Angels, The Importance of Being Earnest), Scared Scriptless Improv (performer and Artistic Director), The Tap Studio (2023 Cama'i Dance Festival), and Anchorage Cabarets (soloist), and has won multiple Alaskan and NW Regional NATS vocal competitions. Most recently, Katy was awarded Best Actor honors for her performance in the title role in Kristen Ritter’s Blanche Stuart Scott at the SheLA 2024 Summer Theatre Festival in Los Angeles.

Scripts

Don't Sleep With Me

by Katy Laurance

Synopsis

A quiet room, a warm bed, two people lying side by side; one of them is counting sheep, the other is counting embarrassing memories, melatonin tablets, and the hours left until sunrise. DON’T SLEEP WITH ME as we explore the utter absurdity we find in the dark when our bodies want rest but our brains can't let go.

A quiet room, a warm bed, two people lying side by side; one of them is counting sheep, the other is counting embarrassing memories, melatonin tablets, and the hours left until sunrise. DON’T SLEEP WITH ME as we explore the utter absurdity we find in the dark when our bodies want rest but our brains can't let go.

The Ballad of the Cursed Stormrider

by Katy Laurance

Synopsis

A ship's captain, along with her merry, musical crew, must race across the briny deep to secure a mysterious treasure. They are brave, but will they succeed in the face of jumping jellyfish, devious ducks, and a curse that won't quit?

The Ballad of the Cursed Stormrider is a swashbuckling, sea shanty-filled, high seas adventure comedy for eight actors.

A ship's captain, along with her merry, musical crew, must race across the briny deep to secure a mysterious treasure. They are brave, but will they succeed in the face of jumping jellyfish, devious ducks, and a curse that won't quit?

The Ballad of the Cursed Stormrider is a swashbuckling, sea shanty-filled, high seas adventure comedy for eight actors.

The Good Word

by Katy Laurance

Synopsis

At sunrise tomorrow, she will lose the ability to speak, to sign, and to write freely...so tonight she is throwing a party! Her friends and family have gathered to hear, and to honor, her Last Words, but what do you say, when you know these words will be your last?

The Good Word is a six actor dramedy exploring the real fear of losing your inner voice in the slightly surreal setting of having to confront that...

At sunrise tomorrow, she will lose the ability to speak, to sign, and to write freely...so tonight she is throwing a party! Her friends and family have gathered to hear, and to honor, her Last Words, but what do you say, when you know these words will be your last?

The Good Word is a six actor dramedy exploring the real fear of losing your inner voice in the slightly surreal setting of having to confront that voice face to face.

This play occurs in present day, and this world exactly mimics our own, with the exception of the
Stillness: The common term for the final developmental milestone in human maturation. After
reaching physical maturity, humans experience a year of ‘Stillness’ where they are unable to
communicate save for a single word. When the sun rises on the morning of their birthday in their
Year of Stillness, the first word they say, or sign, or write, becomes the only word they may
speak, or sign, or write, for the next year. Stillness can happen at any age after physical
maturity, though the majority of humans experience it in their 20s, or some time shortly after
their children reach maturity. Almost all humans experience signs and symptoms which indicate
their impending Stillness in the year prior to Stillness (known colloquially as The Last Year).

Pretty Telling

by Katy Laurance

Synopsis

Two driven business partners, wandering in a dark New England wood, are ambushed by an axe-wielding stranger straight out of a murder-podcast cliche. But there will be no violence this night; only hilarity as our heroes attempt a poorly executed jewel heist, grudgingly avoid a sweet familial reconciliation, and drink much, too much, champagne.

Pretty Telling is a three actor, quick banter, physical comedy of...

Two driven business partners, wandering in a dark New England wood, are ambushed by an axe-wielding stranger straight out of a murder-podcast cliche. But there will be no violence this night; only hilarity as our heroes attempt a poorly executed jewel heist, grudgingly avoid a sweet familial reconciliation, and drink much, too much, champagne.

Pretty Telling is a three actor, quick banter, physical comedy of mishaps.

What We Inherit

by Katy Laurance

Synopsis

In a modest fishing village in southeast Alaska, a woman is struggling to care for her ailing grandmother and floundering partner. When she is suddenly struck with 'Seeing': a gift shared by the women in her family, she finds herself living moments of her family's secret past, and must reckon with a legacy of being left behind.

What We Inherit is a three actor mystical family drama where three generations of...

In a modest fishing village in southeast Alaska, a woman is struggling to care for her ailing grandmother and floundering partner. When she is suddenly struck with 'Seeing': a gift shared by the women in her family, she finds herself living moments of her family's secret past, and must reckon with a legacy of being left behind.

What We Inherit is a three actor mystical family drama where three generations of women wrestle with the gifts and the heartache that mothers pass on to their daughters.