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Playwright, The Book of Will

Lauren M. Gunderson is the most produced American playwright in 2017–2018 (American Theatre magazine). Her work has been commissioned and premiered across the U.S. at companies such as South Coast Repertory, Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Crowded Fire Theater and more. She co-authored Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley with Margot Melcon. 

Other plays: I and You, Silent Sky, Emilie, Exit Pursued by a Bear, The Taming, Toil and Trouble, Bauer, The Revolutionists, Ada and the Engine. Her picture book Dr. Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is now available from Two Lions. 

Awards: Winner, Lanford Wilson Award, Otis Gurnsey New Voices Award, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award; finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, John Gassner Award for Playwriting, a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. 

Education: MFA, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship; BA, Emory University. 

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