Lauren Gunderson (she/her) is one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list twice including 2019–20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern literature and drama at Emory University and dramatic writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in social entrepreneurship. Her play The Catastrophist, about her husband virologist, Nathan Wolfe, premiered digitally in January 2021. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon and her audioplay The Half-Life of Marie Curie premiered Off-Broadway and at audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, Methuen Drama, and Samuel French. laurengunderson.com.
