Lauren Holmes

2024 Princess Grace Award
Playwriting Fellowship in partnership with New Dramatists

 

Lauren is a playwright from Dedham, Massachusetts, and now lives in NYC. She recently adapted the novel The Employees by Olga Ravn with director Jaclyn Biskup for a production at Theaterlab. Her work has been developed at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and The Brick’s Quick + Dirty. She was a recipient of a 2024Woodward Residency. She’s been a finalist for the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, and a semi-finalist for the Playwrights Realm, The Civilians R&D Lab, The Next Forever Residency, and the WP Lab. Before playwriting, she worked on political campaigns, in corporate America, and for the UN in Italy and New York. Her plays are dark, funny, and usually about class, work, and families of happenstance. MFA in playwriting from Hunter College.

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Theaterlab presents A World Premiere Production by The Mill The Employees