CV
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BIO
L M Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright who writes theatrically audacious, physically kinetic, ensemble-driven plays that are both epic & intimate – usually about outsiders, often about searchers, always about the human connection. Plays that shift the prism, that quest & grapple. Plays about the women & queers they find in the shadows of now & in the margins of history. Plays wrestling with voice & agency, opportunity & access, history & its wake. Plays that explode space & time & form. Plays that seek to create a communally transcendent experience – for those both onstage & off.
So far, L’s body of work includes: S P A C E (Central Square Theater, MACH 33 Festival, First Light Festival, EST/Sloan commission, Playwrights’ Center, Drama League, Fresh Ground Pepper); HAND FOOT HAND (PlayPenn, Playwrights Realm); LIMBER, A LOVE STORY (Emerson Stage); THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL [AN EPIC] (Jane Chambers Award finalist, American Shakespeare Center, Kitchen Dog New Works Festival, New Georges Audrey Residency, Page 73 Residency, InterAct Core Playwrights); ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (City Theater Company + Curious Theatre + The Vortex; Colorado New Play Festival, FEWW Prize Honorable Mention, Magic Theatre Play Festival, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, PlayPenn Conference, Playwrights Realm Fellowship); SCRIBE, OR THE SISTERS MILTON, OR ELEGY FOR THE UNWRITTEN (Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival, Playwrights’ Center, Northwoods Ramah Theatre commission); THE EGG-LAYERS (Jane Chambers Honorable Mention, New Georges/Barnard College commission); GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING (Denver Center, ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award Nomination, Barrymore Nomination); A PEOPLE [A MOSAIC PLAY] (Methuen Drama, Global Jewish Voices, Terrence McNally Award Finalist, Orbiter 3, YiddishFest, Jewish Plays Project, Tofte Lake Center); and TROPICAL SECRETS, OR ALL THE FLUTES IN THE SEA, based on a poem-novel by Margarita Engle (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Kindness Project commission); as well as a half-dozen ensemble-devised works.
L's work has been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Barrie & Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and two Lammy Awards. They couldn't be more grateful for the validation each of these has offered.
L is also ongoingly thankful to have been a Venturous Playwright Fellow and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, as well as a fellow at MacDowell, the Playwrights Realm, New Georges, InterAct Theatre, the Dramatists Guild, and Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries; a member of Orbiter 3 (Philadelphia’s producing-playwrights collective); and a thought partner with the 2022-2023 Artistic Caucus (Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Long Wharf, & St. Louis Rep).
As a contemporary circus artist, L performed duo trapeze at festivals around the world. They continue to teach, coach, and dramaturg for circus artists around the country. L is passionate about theater that MOVES, and circus that DELVES.
L has lived in seven cities and is based in Philadelphia, where they write, mentor, collaborate, advocate, teach (all over the place), and handstand (also all over the place).
L would love to hear from you at lauren.m.feldman@gmail.com.
You can always read L’s plays here:
https://newplayexchange.org/users/451/l-m-feldman
L shares some circus, theater, & nature exploits here:
https://www.instagram.com/elemfeld/
Or you can contact L’s warm & awesome agent:
BETH BLICKERS / Michael Moore Agency
315 West 39th St, Suite 607
New York, NY 10018
(347) 305-7996
beth@michaelmooreagency.com
