who is she
Laura Pittenger is a novelist, playwright, director, dramaturg, and proud resident of Astoria, Queens in NYC. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel and is represented by Aimee Ashcraft of Brower Literary.
Laura is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The Lambs Club.
Laura's plays have been published by YouthPLAYS (Pride and Prejudice Abridged) and Smith & Kraus (The Gospel of Huxley in 105 Ten-Minute Plays for Study and Performance). Her plays have been produced at FringeNYC (The HVAC Plays); The Sheen Center Theater Festival (The Drill); The Gallery Players (Brooklyn, NY; Thou Shalt Not), GI60's International One-Minute Theatre Festival (Nibon, co-written with Meron Langsner), and Ball State University (Daughters of Trinity: Women of the Manhattan Project, led by Jennifer Blackmer).
Laura's plays have also received workshops with the Sheen Center, Xavier Theatre, 3V Theatre, One Bird Productions, Alaska's Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, The Playwrights' Center, and Ball State University (BSU).
Laura has directed at The Tank (NYC premiere of Jason Hall's thriller Third Floor), Athena Writes NYC, Project Y (Parity Plays), The Producers Club (Turn to Flesh Productions), and BSU.
Laura has worked with the New Sanctuary Coalition and Robert Choiniere to create interview-based theater with immigrants living in New York City. Laura was an inaugural Playwriting Fellow at the Sheen Center with her play The Honor of Your Presence. She was commissioned by Project Y to write An Unexpected Resurrection, a free adaptation of the work of Hroswitha of Gandershaim, for the Fourth Annual Women in Theater Festival.
Laura is a founding board member and treasurer of Catholic Artist Connection. She hails from Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from the Honors College at Ball State University with a B.A. in theatre production for directing, summa cum laude, and academic honors in writing.
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