Laura Winters
ALL OF ME
4 W 2 M: 2 act dramedy
Potential couple Lucy and Alfonso have a lot in common: they both love jazz, hate astrology, and use text-to-speech technology to speak. Their mothers only see differences. Alfonso’s mom writes off any girl who isn’t a Spanish-speaking PhD candidate. Since Lucy’s mom doesn't want her to date, period, Lucy resorts to illicit measures to assert her independence. ALL OF ME is equal parts hilarious coming of age story and a brutal dissection of disability, class, and race in present-day America.
World Premiere: Barrington Stage
dir: Ashley Brooke Monroe
Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Barrington Stage Burman New Play Prize 2020 -
*Winner of the Screencraft Playwriting Competition 2022 * Relentless Award
American Theatre Foundation's Honorable Mention
Drama League Next Stage Residency Recipient: Reading directed by resident Ashley Brooke Monroe
*Princess Grace Award - Semi Finalist
SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Fellowship Semi-Finalist *
Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep - Semi-Finalist
CORONATION
3W (or) 2W / 1NB: 3 act dramedy
After another female candidate loses the 2040 presidential election, three passionate but disillusioned women dream up a 4th branch of government - a monarchy to be run by only the Queen of America. This 3-act political satire travels 300 years into the future, featuring a gas mask fashion show, ball gowns made out of blue jeans, and a walking, talking, plotting Siri. CORONATION investigates how history gets made and just what it will take to get a non-male to lead the United States.
Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference
Play Date at Pete's Candy Store
Virtual Reading with the Bechdel Group
Corkscrew Theatre Festival - Shortlisted
EMERSON LOSES HER "MIAND"
6W, 1M: 90 minute comedy
Emerson Greenblatt just got engaged! And you’re invited to join her and her five friends as they complete a sacred rite of bridal-party passage: a beer trolley tour through Nashville. The memories are flowing. The rosé is flowing. The debate over every single aspect of this interfaith wedding is, unfortunately, also flowing. EMERSON LOSES HER “MIAND” is a nonstop comedic send up of the absurdity of bridesmaid culture. Cheers!
Semi-Finalist at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference
Semi-Finalist in The Bechdel Test 2.0 Festival in Tempe, Arizona
NY Winterfest - workshop production
Reading at Dixon Place Lounge
GONZO
Genesis Báez is a college student, a provider for her family, and a porn star in Miami’s competitive amateur porn scene. She has her eye on retiring from porn, but she just needs to book one last shoot to pay for her final semester in college. When an unconventional porn star wannabe arrives at the house Gen shares with her boyfriend and two other porn stars, Gen’s carefully crafted-persona gets torn away. Inspired by the Netflix Documentary Hot Girls Wanted, GONZO centers the complex lives of sex workers and their roles in deciding what gets filmed and who gets f***ed.
Barrington Stage Burman New Play Award - Semi-Finalist
Rough Draft Festival at LPAC - workshop production
Corkscrew Festival - reading
SPACE MISSION #5379: SAVING RACHEL, NEVADA
15 + characters, any gender - for children to perform
There have been no alien sightings in Rachel, Nevada for two whole years. This means trouble for the town of 50 people that live or die by Area 51 tourism. When the Coates family moves to town, they are enlisted by the town kids to help stage an alien sighting to save their new home
Productions: East Valley Children's Theatre
Redwood Day School
Winner of Best Original Script in the AirZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence 2020
National Youth Arts Award Nomination for Outstanding New Work
2nd place in the Jackie White Memorial International Playwriting Contest 2019
Redwood Day School
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