Laura Winters
Bio (the long one)
Laura Winters is a bicoastal playwright and screenwriter. Full length plays include ALL OF ME (formerly JUST THE MELODY - Barrington Stage Burman New Play Prize 2nd Place, Drama League Next Stage Residency, Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist, SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Residency Finalist, Semi-Finalist for Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor Residency), GONZO (Barrington Stage Burman New Play Award Semi-Finalist, Rough Draft Theatre Festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Corkscrew Theatre Festival, Lyra Theatre), EMERSON LOSES HER “MIAND” (Powers New Voices Festival at The Old Globe, Semi-Finalist in The Bechdel Test Festival, Vagabond School for the Arts, NY Winterfest, Dixon Place), CORONATION (finalist, National Playwrights' Conference, Pete’s Candy Store, Bechdel Group, shortlisted at Corkscrew Theatre Festival) and a full-length children’s play, SPACE MISSION #5379: SAVING RACHEL, NEVADA (1st place winner of East Valley Children’s Playwriting Contest with a production February 2020, 2nd place Jackie White Memorial International Playwriting Contest, currently nominated for Best Original Script in the Arizoni Theatre Awards of Excellence).
She was commissioned by her alma mater Prospect High School to write a 48-character traveling-show HORSEPLAY.
She is an alumni of the BMI Lehman Engel 2-year lyric-writing program and a current member of the BMI Libretto writing program. Her musical MIRROR IMAGE was semi-finalist in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and the Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation’s 15 minute musical challenge.
She has written multiple original pilots TYPE CAST (Comedic winner for ScreenCraft 2021 Half-Hour, Top 10 Final Draft BigBreak Competition) DISGRACED, a finalist for the Orchard Project Episodic Lab,, spec scripts, and short films including SUGAR & SAND and the forthcoming western DRIVEN (Candido Films).
Laura has also written and self-published two feminist coloring books with her twin sister: Her Highness Builds Robots, and EqualiTeam Saves the Day! The books sell online and in bookstores across the United States.
BA Northwestern University.
Reviews for ALL OF ME playing @ The New Group
"Mercilessly funny script" - The New Yorker
“All of Me is structurally tight, has well-developed and complex characters, and explores disability issues with nuance, all while being genuinely hilarious. Winters does something rare in the comedic playwriting world, successfully including multiple styles of humor." - TheatreMania​
“The play is laugh-out-loud funny, and it works so well because it doesn’t try to uplift or educate the audience. Instead, it authentically represents the characters and bakes the challenging experience of disability in America into the plot.” - New York Theatre Guide ​
