Lauren Gunderson

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Lauren Gunderson (born February 5, 1982) is an award-winning American playwright, born in Atlanta. She currently lives in San Francisco.

Gunderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Emory University in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.[1]

She writes about women in science and history,[2] and comedies based on Shakespeare.[3]

She is married to virologist Nathan Wolfe.[4]

Theatrical credits

Her play Exit, Pursued By A Bear has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin, TX.[5]

Gunderson's play Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, about the real-life 18th century physicist Émilie du Châtelet was commissioned and developed at South Coast Repertory as part of their 2008 Pacific Playwrights Festival directed by Kate Whorisky. It was produced the follow year directed by David Emmes. Jan. 25 2011, it opened in W. Seattle, at Arts West Theater. It is [published by Samuel French Inc] (2010).

"Fire Work" was developed at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center in 2009.[6]

Gunderson's play "Leap", about a young Isaac Newton, was produced by Theatre Emory in 2004, directed by Megan Monaghan [7]

Her play "Parts They Call Deep" and "Background" won her the Essential Theatre Prize in 2000 and 2004.[8] "Background", about physicist Ralph Alpher, was published by Isotope: A Literary Journal of Nature and Science Writing (2009, issue 7.2) [9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nyu.edu/reynolds/grad/alumni_html/07_html/gunderson.html.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Jones, Chad (October 2013). "Heart and Mind". American Theatre Magazine. Retrieved October 2013. 
  3. ↑ Brown, Joel (October 11, 2013). "Abuser, pursued by a comedy". Boston Globe. Retrieved October 11, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Hamlin, Jesse (October 13, 2013). "Playwright at a prolific stage of her career". San Francisco Chroncile. Retrieved Sunday, October 13, 2013. 
  5. ↑ . Playscripts, Inc http://www.playscripts.com/play/2416.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ http://www.theoneill.org/news/041409.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.emory.edu/news/Releases//leap1069865479.html
  8. ↑ http://www.essentialtheatre.com/competition.htm
  9. ↑ http://isotope.usu.edu/pages/issues/issue_7.1/issue_7.1.html

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