Laugh Lines To Savour

Claire BonEnfant

Playwright/Lyricist/Screenwriter

Toronto, Canada

Welcome to my website.

I write clever comedies about serious subjects for stage and screen. Fresh, funny, quirky and highly original scripts that resonate with unexpected depth. My current body of work includes four feature-length screenplays, three short film scripts, three musicals, three full-length stage plays and three one-act plays. Here you’ll find a brief synopsis for each script. You can even listen to lyrics from my musicals, as well as a stand-alone song.

We all create meaning in our own ways. My way is to write about complex characters who stumble from one question mark to the next. As they search for answers, I am guided by an indisputable truth: inquiring minds, like ours, still want to laugh.

My one-act play, Lying on the Escarpment, was produced by Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival and later produced, along with Knock It Off!, at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Horizon was featured in Theatre Aurora’s Playwrights of Spring Festival. A 10-minute play, The Caw-Caw Conspiracy, was produced by the Fowl Plays Festival, Heartland Theatre, Bloomington, Illinois.

Think you’ve got tummy troubles?

Illustration by Gillian Goulet

Fam (short for Famished) from Body of Opinion

Hear what she has to put up with in

“Gut Reaction” on the LISTEN TO LYRICS page.

Florence Who?

Watch Your Asp!

“Two plays about the f word — failure!”

Homebodies

Finding a home can be lethal.

“You have no right to interrogate us.”

“Would you rather the police ask questions?”

Title Gallery

Screenplays

Screen Shorts

Stage Plays

One-Act Plays

Musicals

From Eden to Earth:

Look what’s on Eve’s To-Do List!

A Flash in the Pan is a great deal of fun. It succeeds as a story that is entertaining, but also has heart.”

Cheryl Coons, Chicago

Instructor, Dramatists Guild of America Institute

See Something Intriguing?

If you’re a composer, producer, director or actor looking for

a new project that’s playful yet pertinent, please get in touch.