Laura NeillLaura Neill is a Boston playwright. Her plays have been produced or developed by Fresh Ink Theatre, the Wilbury Theatre Group, the Dartmouth College Department of Theater, Brown Production Workshop, VoxFest, and Playwrights' Reading Room. Her play Do't Give Up the Ship, a funky feminist drama about a woman who begins acting as an 1812 war hero, premiered with Fresh Ink Theatre in February 2017. Laura is the playwright for OperaHub's new pastiche play with opera, TRUNK SHOW!: A Fashionable Fantasia of Women on the World Stage, which will premiere in Fall 2017. Laura is earning her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University, where she acted as dramaturg for Livian Yeh's Memorial in 2016. Laura's first full-length play, Faking It, was inspired by the stories of college survivors of sexual assault and was produced in the Bentley Theater at Dartmouth College in 2011. Laura won the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Award in 2012 for her one-act plays Conditions and Fall. While completing her Honors thesis on Shakespeare's history plays in 2013, Laura wrote and directed True American Love, a political drama. In 2014, she earned her Master of Arts in Teaching degree at Brown University while workshopping F.S.B., a piece about betrayal and friendship in a recovery facility. From 2014 to 2016, Laura taught English at Westwood High School, focusing on United States literature; she also partnered with Playwrights' Reading Room to host free play readings at local libraries. She was an affiliate of the 2016 Company One PlayLab. Her play Skin and Bones, a conversation between a retired theatre usher and a bouncer for a boxing match, was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Princess Grace Fellowship. Laura's play The Coming of the Lamb was a part of the 2016 Culture*Park Short Plays Marathon. Her newest plays-in-progress include The End Will Hurt, a piece that weaves together a typical family story with fantastical digital narratives, and Cap, or, El Limite, the story of a young woman struggling for agency amidst the charter school cap protests. Cap is currently a semi-finalist for the 2017 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Laura runs the Youth Shakespeare Project, a tuition-free summer theater camp, with her husband Jaymes Sanchez; Laura and Jaymes founded YSP to bring theatre education to students of various socioeconomic backgrounds and have co-directed three seasons, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (2012), As You Like It (2014), and Much Ado about Nothing (2016) in Hanover, NH. Laura is a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, and the New England New Play Alliance. She currently resides in Brighton, MA. Learn more at http: //laurajneill.wixsite.com/home and read selected scripts at https: //newplayexchange.org/users/1933/laura-neill. Read More Read Less