Laura Jacqmin
{{short description|American dramatist}}
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/jacqmin-wins-second-annual-wasserstein-prize-com-149283|title=Jacqmin Wins Second Annual Wasserstein Prize|work=Playbill}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://16thstreettheater.org/people-pages/laura-jacqmin/|title=Laura Jacqmin – 16th Street Theater|publisher=}}
Jacqmin is one of the founding members of The Kilroys, based in Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=The Kilroys|url=http://thekilroys.org/|website=The Kilroys|accessdate=1 May 2016}} 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.{{cite web|last1=Brooks|first1=Katherine|title=Here Are 46 Female-Authored Plays That Deserve Your Attention|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/the-kilroys_n_5503199.html|website=Huffington Post|date=17 June 2014 |accessdate=10 May 2016}}
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){{cite web |url=http://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft:_Story_Mode |title=Minecraft: Story Mode |work=Minecraft Wiki |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}
Plays
- Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (2010, world premiere){{cite web|title=Playscripts|url=https://www.playscripts.com/playwrights/bios/829|website=Playscripts|accessdate=5 May 2016}}
- A Third (2015, world premiere){{cite web|title=A Third|url=http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2015/a-third.php|website=Finborough Theatre|accessdate=10 May 2016}}
- Residence (2015) {{cite web|title=Laura Jacqmin Has a Play in the Humana Fest!|url=https://ohioplaywriting.org/2015/11/17/laura-jacqmin-has-play-in-the-humana-fest/|website=Ohio Playwriting|date=17 November 2015 |accessdate=9 May 2016}}
- We're Going To Be Fine (2015, world premiere){{cite web|title=We're Going To Be Fine|url=http://theatre.depaul.edu/on-stage/productions/2014-2015/Pages/mfa15.aspx|website=The Theatre School: DePaul University|accessdate=10 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518012413/http://theatre.depaul.edu/on-stage/productions/2014-2015/Pages/MFA15.aspx|archive-date=18 May 2016|url-status=dead}}
- Look, we are breathing (2015, world premiere){{cite web|last1=Reid|first1=Kerry|title='Look We Are Breathing': What if a life didn't mean all that much?|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-look-we-are-breathing-review-20150413-story.html|website=Chicago Tribune|date=14 April 2015 |accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- Ghost Bike (2014, world premiere){{cite web|last1=Lee B.|first1=Roberts|title='Ghost Bike,' a play exploring loss and death emerges at carthage College this weekend|url=http://journaltimes.com/lifestyles/leisure/ghost-bike-a-play-exploring-loss-and-death-premieres-at/article_228910e6-5778-11e1-802e-001871e3ce6c.html|website=The Journal Times|date=16 February 2012 |accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- Milvotchkee, Visconsin (2013/2014, co-world premiere){{cite web|last1=Kragen|first1=Pam|title=Review: Surreal 'Milvotchkee' a dark trip|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/jun/07/milvotchkee-visconsin-theater-review-moolelo/|website=The San Diego Union-Tribune|date=7 June 2014 |accessdate=9 May 2016}}
- Before You Ruin It (2014, academic premiere)
- Do-Gooder (2014, world premiere){{cite web|title=Do-Gooder|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/do-gooder/Event?oid=12665855|website=Chicago Reader| date=23 September 2009 |accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- January Joiner (2013, world premiere){{cite news|last1=Goldberg|first1=Bonnie|title='January Joiner' a comic tale of weight loss|url=http://www.middletownpress.com/article/MI/20130124/NEWS/301249993|website=The MIddletown Press|date=24 January 2013 |accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- 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){{cite web|title=Pluto was a Planet|url=https://www.playscripts.com/play/2015|website=Playscripts|accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- Airborne{{cite web|title=Airbrone|url=https://www.playscripts.com/play/2208|website=Playscripts|accessdate=9 May 2016}}
- 10 Virgins{{cite web|title=10 Virgins|url=https://www.playscripts.com/play/1568|website=Playscripts|accessdate=8 May 2016}}
- 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 [https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/art-works/grant-program-description NEA Art Works] grant for world premiere production of Milvotchkee, Visconsin
- Winner, 2013 [http://web.kennedy-center.org/Education/KCACTF/awards/Playwriting/DMCohen Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award]
- Awardee, 2013 [https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/art-works/grant-program-description 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 [https://actorstheatre.org/participate/donate/special-funds/heideman-award-fund/ Heideman Award]
- Finalist, 2008 and 2011 [http://www.pgfusa.com/ Princess Grace Award]
- Finalist, 2011 [http://www.page73.org/programs/p73-playwriting-fellowship/ P73 Playwriting Fellowship]
- Member of the Goodman Theatre’s 2010–11 [http://www.goodmantheatre.org/playwrightsunit Playwrights’ Unit]
- Nominee, 2011 [http://www.cherrylanetheatre.org/programs/mentor_project/ Cherry Lane Mentor Project]
- Awarded 2009 [http://luminarts.org/ Union League Club Civic & Arts Foundation’s] Emerging Playwright Award
- Winner/finalist for [https://auroratheatre.org/index.php?option=com_theatre&view=tpage&id=77 Aurora Theatre Company]’s 2007 and 2009 Global Age Project
- Winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given by the [http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/itrwasserstein.aspx#.Vy_KFSMrIy4 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{{cite web | url=https://www.carthage.edu/arts/experience-the-arts/theatre-dance-performances/new-play-initiative/ | title=New Play Initiative }}
- 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
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External links
- http://www.laurajacqmin.com/
- Adam Szymkowicz's "I Interview Playwrights Part 121: [http://aszym.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-interview-playwrights-part-121-laura.html Laura Jacqmin]"
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