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Laura Jacqmin is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, the co-founder of the Yale Playwrights Festival, and is the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize (a $25,000 award for emerging female playwrights given by the Dramatists Guild and the Educational Foundation of America). Her plays have been produced and developed by Victory Gardens Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Culture Project, Perishable Theatre, Collaboraction, The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic/New Voices at the Atlantic Theater, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the inaugural NNPN/University Playwrights Workshop at the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University, among others. Her play HAPPYSLAP was a winner of Aurora Theatre Company’s 2007 Global Age Project and was produced by the Ohio University School of Theater in their 2006-2007 season. She is the recipient of a 2006 Ohio University SEA research and development grant for 10 VIRGINS, which will receive its world premiere in Chicago Dramatists’ 2007-2008 season. Also premiering in Chicago this season is Jacqmin’s BUTT NEKKID, produced by the side project theatre company. Her work has been published by Smith & Kraus and in Rosebud Magazine. She is currently working on a commission for Victory Gardens Theater, made possible by the Wallace Foundation. She earned an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University and a BA from Yale.
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