Lauren Feldman

Lauren's plays include: A People; The Egg-Layers; Grace, or The Art of Climbing; Fill Our Mouths; The Life and Acts of Jesus Christ as Told by the Heretics (ensemble-devised); a dozen short plays; and an autobiographical solo piece. She was a U.S. playwright delegate at the Royal Court Theatre and at World Interplay/Australia, and she has been an artist-in-residence at SPACE at Ryder Farm, the School of Making Thinking, Tofte Lake Center, Montana Artists Refuge, Montana Repertory Theatre, Sewanee University of the South, Cornell University, and Theater Emory / Brave New Works Festival. She received the Agnes Ranjo Capps Award for an Emerging Female Playwright and was nominated for the 2009 Wendy Wasserstein Prize. She is published by Cengage Learning, Applause Books, and Broadway Play Publishing. She holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where she was mentored by Richard Nelson, Rebecca Rugg, Ken Prestininzi, and Paula Vogel; a B.A. in English from Cornell University; and she’s an alumna of The Shakespeare Programme (British-American Drama Academy / Skidmore College). At present she’s developing The Egg-Layers for a 2012 academic production at Barnard (director Alice Reagan); working with director Pirronne Yousefzadeh and an ensemble of actors and writers to devise The Food Play with the support of New Georges and New York Theatre Workshop; collaborating with director Adam J. Thompson on a new theatrical piece called The Orpheus Variations; and she recently worked with director Adrienne Mackey on creating LADY M, a feminist adaptation of Macbeth which premiered at the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. She is a 2012 Dramatists Guild Fellow and an Affiliated Artist with New Georges. When she’s not creating theater, Lauren teaches playwriting, freelance writes/edits, and is learning how to become an acrobat (with the all-women acrobatic troupe LAVA). She is represented by the wonderful Mark Armstrong / PARADIGM, 212-897-6400, marmstrong@paradigmagency.com.