Laura Jacqmin is a Chicago-based playwright from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She has also written for television and video games, and was the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given to recognize an emerging female playwright. Look, We Are Breathing was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work. Residence, directed by Hal Brooks, premiered in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 40th Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Jacqmin attended Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio. After high school, Jacqmin attended Yale, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating Cum Laude and with Departmental Honors in 2004. She then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from Ohio University in 2007.
Grace and Frankie (Netflix, 2015) - Story Editor
Lucky 7 (ABC, 2013) - Staff Writer
We Broke Up - Screenwriter with Jeff Rosenberg, currently under option with Mason Novick/ MXN
Minecraft: Story Mode: Telltale Games (2015) - Episodic Game Writer-Contract
Groups and organizations
Unnamed Lady Writers Group - Founding Member
Chicago Dramatists - Resident Playwright Emertia
Dramatists Guild - Associate Member
Jacqmin is one of the founding members of the females in theatre empowerment group, The Kilroys, based in LA. The group came to be in 2014 when they released a list of some of the top un-produced or underproduced plays by female playwrights in an effort to fill theatre with plays written by and about women since the majority of plays produced are written by and for men. The list was well received and theaters across the United States started to pull plays from the list to put into their season. The group plans to release a similar list each year in the pursuit of their goal.
Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (2010, world premiere)
A Third (2015, world premiere)
Residence (2015)
We're Going To Be Fine (2015, world premiere)
Look, we are breathing (2015, world premiere)
Ghost Bike (2014, world premiere)
Milvotchkee, Visconsin (2013/2014, co-world premiere)
Before You Ruin It (2014, academic premiere)
Do-Gooder (2014, world premiere)
January Joiner (2013, world premiere)
And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light (2012, world premiere)
Ski Dubai (2009, world premiere)
Two Lakes, Two Rivers (2012)
Pluto Was a Planet (2008)
Airborne
10 Virgins
Happyslap
Workshops and residencies
Williamstown Theatre Festival – Fellowship Project, 2015
Cape Cod Theatre Project, 2015
SDC Guest Artist residency at Arizona State University, spring 2014
Faith Broome playwright in residence at University of Oklahoma, fall 2012
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, summer 2012
Old Vic/New Voices US/UK Exchange, summer 2012
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2011
Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency, 2011
Cape Cod Theatre Project, 2011
Theater of the First Amendment’s First Light Festival, 2011
Lark Theatre’s Playwrights Week, 2010
Sundance Theatre Lab, 2010
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, 2010
P73’s Yale residency, 2010
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2009
Writer in residence at the Marcel Breuer House: Rockefeller Brothers Estate, sponsored by Page 73 and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 2009
Residency in Applied Arts at the Center for Age and Community at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
Awards, honors, and grants
Finalist, 2015 Heideman Award for Post-Apocalypto
Longlisted, Theatre503 Playwriting Award for A Third
Awardee, 2014 NEA Art Works grant for world premiere production of Milvotchkee, Visconsin
Winner, 2013 Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award
Awardee, 2013 NEA Art Works grant for world premiere production of January Joiner
Finalist, 2013 Laurents/Hatcher Prize
Shortlisted, 2012 BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition
Finalist, 2010–13 Heideman Award
Finalist, 2008 and 2011 Princess Grace Award
Finalist, 2011 P73 Playwriting Fellowship
Member of the Goodman Theatre’s 2010–11 Playwrights’ Unit
Nominee, 2011 Cherry Lane Mentor Project
Awarded 2009 Union League Club Civic & Arts Foundation’s Emerging Playwright Award
Winner/finalist for Aurora Theatre Company’s 2007 and 2009 Global Age Project
Winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given by the Dramatists Guild and the Educational Foundation of America to an emerging female playwright (for And when we awoke there was light and light)
DePaul University School of Theater, 2014
Victory Gardens Theater/NNPN, 2012
South Coast Rep, 2011
Carthage College, 2011
Goodman Theatre, 2010
Arden Theatre Company, 2010
InterAct Theatre, 2010
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, 2010
Foundation for Jewish Culture: New Jewish Theatre Projects Grant, 2008
Victory Gardens Theater, 2007
