Laura Jacqmin

Laura Jacqmin is a Los Angeles–based television writer, playwright, and video game writer from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize, a $25,000 award given to recognize an emerging female playwright.

Biography Jacqmin attended Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio. After high school, Jacqmin attended Yale, then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from Ohio University.

Jacqmin is one of the founding members of The Kilroys, based in Los Angeles. The group came to be in 2014 when they released a list of some of the top un-produced or underproduced plays by female, trans and NB playwrights in an effort to increase gender parity in the American theater.

Awards 2008, Wasserstein Prize

Filmography

Television

Year Title Writer ExecutiveProducer Network Notes 2015 Grace and Frankie Netflix 2018–2019 Get Shorty Epix 2022 Joe vs. Carole Peacock 2023 One Piece Netflix 2026 Ride or Die Amazon Prime Video

Film We Broke Up – Screenwriter with Jeff Rosenberg

Video games Minecraft: Story Mode: Telltale Games (2015)

Plays 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) Dead Pile (2012) 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) 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