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American dramatist

Laura Jacqmin
Occupation(s)	Television writer, Playwright, Video game writer

Laura Jacqmin is a Los Angeles–based television writer, playwright, and video game writer from Shaker Heights, Ohio. 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 Cleveland, Ohio. After high school, Jacqmin attended Yale, then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from Ohio University.

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

One Piece (Netflix)
Get Shorty (EPIX)
Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
Lucky 7 (ABC)
Joe vs. Carole (Peacock)

Film

We Broke Up – 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, 2014 NEA Art Works grant for world premiere production of Milvotchkee, Visconsin
Winner, 2013 Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Awardee, 2013 NEA Art Works grant for world premiere production of January Joiner
Finalist, 2013 Laurents/Hatcher Prize
Shortlisted, 2012 BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition
Finalist, 2010–13 Heideman Award
Finalist, 2008 and 2011 Princess Grace Award
Finalist, 2011 P73 Playwriting Fellowship
Member of the Goodman Theatre’s 2010–11 Playwrights’ Unit
Nominee, 2011 Cherry Lane Mentor Project
Awarded 2009 Union League Club Civic & Arts Foundation’s Emerging Playwright Award
Winner/finalist for Aurora Theatre Company’s 2007 and 2009 Global Age Project
Winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given by the 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, 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

^ "Jacqmin Wins Second Annual Wasserstein Prize". Playbill.
"Laura Jacqmin – 16th Street Theater".
"The Kilroys". The Kilroys. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
Brooks, Katherine (17 June 2014). "Here Are 46 Female-Authored Plays That Deserve Your Attention". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
"Minecraft: Story Mode". Minecraft Wiki. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
"Playscripts". Playscripts. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
"A Third". Finborough Theatre. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
"Laura Jacqmin Has a Play in the Humana Fest!". Ohio Playwriting. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
"We're Going To Be Fine". The Theatre School: DePaul University. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
Reid, Kerry (14 April 2015). "'Look We Are Breathing': What if a life didn't mean all that much?". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
Lee B., Roberts (16 February 2012). "'Ghost Bike,' a play exploring loss and death emerges at carthage College this weekend". The Journal Times. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
Kragen, Pam (7 June 2014). "Review: Surreal 'Milvotchkee' a dark trip". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
"Do-Gooder". Chicago Reader. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
Goldberg, Bonnie (24 January 2013). "'January Joiner' a comic tale of weight loss". The MIddletown Press. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
"Pluto was a Planet". Playscripts. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
"Airbrone". Playscripts. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
"10 Virgins". Playscripts. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
"New Play Initiative".

External links

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

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