Lauren Feldman
Lauren Feldman is a playwright, dramaturg, professor (Bryn Mawr College), and a creator-performer of theatrical circus. She has been nominated for the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, New York Innovative Theatre Award, and the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and New England Center for Circus Arts, she is also a New Georges Affiliated Artist, playwright-mentor with The Foundry, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow. Hailing from Miami, she’s lived in seven cities and is currently in Philadelphia.
UPCOMING WORKS
Scripts in progress:
ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellows)
AMANUENSIS, or Genius and The Three Daughters of John Milton the Poet
An untitled play about the life of students in circus school (Vermont Arts Council creation grant)
Upcoming productions:
CREDITS
Full-lengths:
ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (Drama League New Directors/New Works Fellowship)
THE EGG-LAYERS (Jane Chambers Honorable Mention, New Georges/Barnard College developmental commission)
A PEOPLE (Jewish Plays Project Residency)
GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING (Denver Center Theatre Company, Nice People Theatre Company, ATCA/Steinberg Nomination, Barrymore Nomination, The Kilroys’ List 2014)
FILL OUR MOUTHS (New Theatre, Carbonell Nomination)
AMANUENSIS (Northwoods Ramah Theatre Company commission)
Devised:
TINDER & ASH (Circus Now: International Contemporary Circus Exposure, SummerStage NYC, Orchard Project residency, TOHU residency)
AND IF YOU LOSE YOUR WAY, OR A FOOD ODYSSEY (The Invisible Dog, New York Innovative Theatre Nomination)
LADY M (Philadelphia Live Arts Festival)
NOW/NOT NOW (Dixon Place)
THE APOCRYPHAL PROJECT (Yale Cabaret)
One-acts:
WHEN IT RAINS (Broadway Play Publishing)
And a dozen short plays.