Laura Jacqmin

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 Get Shorty Grace and Frankie Lucky 7

''Joe vs. Carole''

Film

We Broke Up – Screenwriter with Jeff Rosenberg

Video games

Minecraft: Story Mode: Telltale Games

Plays

Dental Society Midwinter Meeting A Third Residence We're Going To Be Fine Look, we are breathing Ghost Bike Milvotchkee, Visconsin Before You Ruin It Do-Gooder January Joiner And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light Dead Pile Ski Dubai Two Lakes, Two Rivers Pluto Was a Planet Airborne10 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 grant for world premiere production of Milvotchkee, Visconsin
Winner, 2013
Awardee, 2013 grant for world premiere production of January Joiner
Finalist, 2013 Laurents/Hatcher Prize
Shortlisted, 2012 BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition
Finalist, 2010–13
Finalist, 2008 and 2011
Finalist, 2011
Member of the Goodman Theatre’s 2010–11
Nominee, 2011
Awarded 2009 Emerging Playwright Award
Winner/finalist for ’s 2007 and 2009 Global Age Project
Winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given by the to an emerging female playwright

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 (Philadelphia)|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