Laura Jacqmin is a Los Angeles–based television writer, playwright, and video game writer from

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. She was the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given to recognize an emerging female playwright.

Biography

Jacqmin attended Shaker Heights High School in

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. After high school, Jacqmin attended Yale, then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from

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. Jacqmin is one of the founding members of The Kilroys, based in

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

. The group came to be in 2014 when they released a list of some of the top un-produced or underproduced plays by female, trans and NB playwrights in an effort to increase gender parity in the American theater.

Awards

* 2008, Wasserstein Prize

Filmography

Television

* ''

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'' (Netflix) * ''

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'' (EPIX) * ''

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'' (Netflix) * '' Lucky 7'' (ABC) * '' Joe vs. Carole'' (Peacock)

Film

* ''

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'' – Screenwriter with Jeff Rosenberg

Video games

* ''Minecraft: Story Mode:'' Telltale Games (2015)

Plays

* ''Dental Society Midwinter Meeting'' (2010, world premiere) * ''A Third'' (2015, world premiere) * ''Residence'' (2015) * ''We're Going To Be Fine'' (2015, world premiere) * ''Look, we are breathing'' (2015, world premiere) * ''Ghost Bike'' (2014, world premiere) * ''Milvotchkee, Visconsin'' (2013/2014, co-world premiere) * ''Before You Ruin It'' (2014, academic premiere) * ''Do-Gooder'' (2014, world premiere) * ''January Joiner'' (2013, world premiere) * ''And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light'' (2012, world premiere) * ''Dead Pile'' (2012) * ''Ski Dubai'' (2009, world premiere) * ''Two Lakes, Two Rivers'' (2012) * ''Pluto Was a Planet'' (2008) * ''Airborne'' * ''10 Virgins'' * ''Happyslap''

Workshops and residencies

* Williamstown Theatre Festival – Fellowship Project, 2015 * Cape Cod Theatre Project, 2015 * SDC Guest Artist residency at Arizona State University, spring 2014 * Faith Broome playwright in residence at University of Oklahoma, fall 2012 * O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, summer 2012 * Old Vic/New Voices US/UK Exchange, summer 2012 * MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2011 * Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency, 2011 * Cape Cod Theatre Project, 2011 * Theater of the First Amendment’s First Light Festival, 2011 * Lark Theatre’s Playwrights Week, 2010 * Sundance Theatre Lab, 2010 * Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, 2010 * P73’s Yale residency, 2010 * MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2009 * Writer in residence at the Marcel Breuer House: Rockefeller Brothers Estate, sponsored by Page 73 and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 2009 * Residency in Applied Arts at the Center for Age and Community at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009

Awards, honors, and grants

* Finalist, 2015 Heideman Award for Post-Apocalypto * Longlisted, Theatre503 Playwriting Award for A Third * Awardee, 201
NEA Art Works
grant for world premiere production of Milvotchkee, Visconsin * Winner, 201
Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
* Awardee, 201
NEA Art Works
grant for world premiere production of January Joiner * Finalist, 2013 Laurents/Hatcher Prize * Shortlisted, 2012 BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition * Finalist, 2010–1
Heideman Award
* Finalist, 2008 and 201
Princess Grace Award
* Finalist, 201
P73 Playwriting Fellowship
* Member of the Goodman Theatre’s 2010–1
Playwrights’ Unit
* Nominee, 201
Cherry Lane Mentor Project
* Awarded 200
Union League Club Civic & Arts Foundation’s
Emerging Playwright Award * Winner/finalist fo
Aurora Theatre Company
��s 2007 and 2009 Global Age Project * Winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given by th
Dramatists Guild and the Educational Foundation of America
to an emerging female playwright (for ''And when we awoke there was light and light'')

Commissions

* DePaul University School of Theater, 2014 * Victory Gardens Theater/NNPN, 2012 * South Coast Rep, 2011 * Carthage College, 2011 * Goodman Theatre, 2010 *

Arden Theatre Company The Arden Theatre Company is a professional regional theatre company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company includes three theatres: the 175-seat Arcadia Stage and the 360-seat F. Otto Haas Stage, located in the main property at 40 ...

, 2010 * InterAct Theatre, 2010 * Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, 2010 * Foundation for Jewish Culture: New Jewish Theatre Projects Grant, 2008 * Victory Gardens Theater, 2007

References

External links

* http://www.laurajacqmin.com/ * Adam Szymkowicz's "I Interview Playwrights Part 121
Laura Jacqmin
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