LM Feldman (formerly Lauren Feldman) is an American playwright known for her play, ''Thrive, or What You Will n epic'.

Early life and education

Feldman graduated from the

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Department of Performing & Media Arts in 2001. She was assigned a writing assignment as part of an acting class. The teacher recommended that she take a playwriting class, which led to Feldman discovering a love for playwriting. She completed her MFA in Playwriting at the

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

School of Drama.

Career

In 2016, Feldman taught playwriting for

PlayPenn PlayPenn is an artist-driven organization dedicated to the development of new plays and playwrights in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Che'Rae Adams is the current Artistic Director, along with Associate Artistic Directors, Susan Dalian and Santiago Iac ...

. Feldman read Glynis Ridley’s ''The Discovery of Jeanne Baret'', and began writing ''Thrive, or What You Will n epic' about the life of Jeanne Baret and inspired by ''

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will ''Twelfth Night, or What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola an ...

.'' ''Thrive'' was the winner of the American Shakespeare Centre's Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries award in 2020 as well as a finalist for the 2022

Lambda Literary Award for Drama The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBTQ-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre ...

and an honorable mention on

The Kilroys' List ''The Kilroys' List'' is a ''#Gender Parity, gender parity'' initiative to end the "systematic underrepresentation of female and Transgender, trans playwrights" in the American theater industry. ''Gender disparity'' is defined as the gap of unprodu ...

in 2019. Feldman was named a 2023-25 Venturous Playwright Fellow, alongside Harmon dot aut and Jessica Huang, by The Playwrights’ Center and Venturous Theater Fund.

Works

Full-length plays * ''The Egg-Layers'' (2012) * ''Grace, or the Art of Climbing'' (2013) * ''a People mosaic play' (2018) * ''Tropical Secrets, or All the Flutes in the Sea'', adapted from the book ''Tropical Secrets'' by Margarita Engle (2021) * ''S P A C E'' * ''Scribe, or The Sisters Milton, Or Elegy for the Unwritten'' (formerly ''Amanuensis'') * ''Another Kind of Silence'' * ''Thrive, or What You Will n epic' (2022) * ''hand foot hand'' Devised works * ''The Life and Works of JC as Told by the Heretics'' (formerly ''The Apocryphal Project'') – devised with Michael Walkup, Brian Hastert, Carter Gill, and Alex Knox (2007) * ''Now/Not Now '' – devised with Diana Y Greiner (2011) * ''Lady M'' – devised with director Adrienne Mackey (2011) * ''And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey'' – devised with Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Nick Choksi, and the ensemble (2014) * ''Gumshoe'' (2017) * ''War of the Worlds: Philadelphia'' – devised with Swim Pony and created in collaboration with the Drexel Entrepreneurial Game Studio (2017)

Awards and nominations

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References

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