Laura Neill (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based playwright currently working on commissions for Keen Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project.

 

She developed her play Winter People at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her play I Love You Elizabeth Warren won the Clauder Competition Massachusetts prize. Productions include Isolated Incidents (Broadway Podcast Network and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, commission), Public Property (Salvage Vanguard Theatre), Skin and Bones (Wilbury Theatre Group), Don't Give Up the Ship (Fresh Ink Theatre), and DIVAS (OperaHub, commission). She was commissioned by SpeakEasy Stage Company's Boston Project (Just Cause).

 

Her published plays include Game Night (Stage Partners), Funtown (YouthPLAYS), The Last Oreo (Stage Partners, upcoming), One Kind of Fear (Flowersong Press, upcoming), The Last Red Lion (ScriptWorks’ Perfect Glitch), and Applause Books anthologies. Her plays have been recognized as semi-finalists or finalists by Local Lab, Premiere Stages, Blank/UCross Future of Playwriting Prize, Gulfshore Playhouse, McNerney Award, the Princess Grace fellowship, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the ATHE Judith Royer Award, and more.

 

Laura was an affiliate of the Company One PlayLab, and was playwright-in-residence at University of Tulsa's WomenWorks. She has taught creative writing and theatre at universities across the country, including Emerson College, Boston College, Austin Community College, and TCU. Teaching both college and high school students inspired her to write for teen casts as well as professional casts. She completed her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University.

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She coordinates the "playwright amoeba," a casual hangout space for playwright community. She lives in Flatbush with her partner Jaymes Sanchez and their gigantic fluffy dog Peppercorn.

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