LAURA JACQMIN is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists,
the co-founder of the Yale Playwrights Festival,
and was nominated for the inaugural Dramatists Guild’s Wasserstein Prize.

Her plays have been staged and developed at Victory Gardens Theater, Perishable Theatre (GOTHAM IS SAFE AGAIN!), Collaboraction (UN ROBOT, POOL OF), the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (LUCKY, YANG REN [FOREIGNER]), Kitchen Dog Theater, the Contemporary American Theater Festival and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University (BUTT NEKKID).

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 development grant for 10 VIRGINS, which will receive its world premiere in Chicago Dramatists’ 2007-2008 season; also premiering in Chicago next season is Jacqmin’s BUTT NEKKID, which will be produced by the side project theatre company.

LUCKY will be published in a forthcoming volume by Smith & Kraus, and several of her monologues will be published in S&K’s 221 ONE-MINUTE MONOLOGUES FROM LITERATURE.

Jacqmin is one of six writers selected to take part in The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices at the Atlantic Theater in New York City this July.