Lauren Gunderson: On Structure

Highlights from a playwriting workshop held by playwright Lauren Gunderson at Marin Theatre Company, April 23, 2017. _______________________________________ Lauren Gunderson is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author from Atlanta, GA. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing at Emory University, and her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She was recently named the most produced living playwright in America by American Theatre Magazine in 2016, was awarded the 2016 Lanford Wilson Award from the Dramatist Guild, and was awarded the prestigious 2014 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for her play, “I and You” (also a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award finalist). That play was an NNPN Rolling World Premiere that started at Marin Theatre Company and has seen over 40 productions nationwide. She is also a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She co-authored the play “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” with Margot Melcon, which received a 3-way world premiere in 2016 and was one of Marin Theatre Company’s most successful productions. Other plays by Lauren Gunderson: Ada and the Engine The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog! Background Bauer The Book of Will By and By Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight Exit, Pursued by a Bear Eye of the Beheld Leap Parts They Call Deep Rock Creek: Southern Gothic The Revolutionists Silent Sky The Taming Toil & Trouble We Are Denmark Video contents ©2017, Lauren Gunderson and Marin Theatre Company