Artists

LAURA SCHELLHARDT's (Playwright) plays have been produced in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC, Providence, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Orlando, San Francisco, Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Original works include Air Guitar High, Auctioning the Ainsleys, The Apothecary's Daughter, The K of D, Courting Vampires, Shapeshifter, Inheritance, and Je Ne Sais Quoi. Adaptations include The Phantom Tollbooth, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The Outfit, and Creole Folktales. She is also the author of Screenwriting for Dummies. Laura is a recipient of the TCG National Playwriting Residency, the Jerome Fellowship, the New Play Award from ACT in Seattle, and a Dramatist Guild Fellowship. She has participated in the SoHo Rep. Writer/Director Lab, The Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices Festival, The Bonderman Symposium, the Women Playwrights Festival at SRC, and the O'Neill National Playwright's Festival. Laura holds received an MFA in playwriting from Brown University where she studied under Paula Vogel. She currently heads the playwriting program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.