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Laura Schellhardt

LAURA SCHELLHARDT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Laura Schellhardt's plays have been produced in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC, Providence, Minneapolis, Orlando, Sarasota, San Francisco, Los Angeles, North Carolina, Pasadena, Palo Alto, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Original works include Air Guitar High, Auctioning the Ainsleys (Jeff Award Nominee), the Apothecary's Daughter, How to Remove Blood From a Carpet, the K of D (Jeff Award Nominee), Courting Vampires, Shapeshifter, Inheritance, and Je Ne Sais Quoi. Adaptations include the Phantom Tollbooth, the Mysteries of Harris Burdick, the Outfit (Jeff Award Nominee), and Creole Folktales. She is also the author of Screenwriting for Dummies. Laura is a recipient of the TCG National Playwriting Residency, the Jerome Fellowship, the New Play Award from ACT in Seattle, and a Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship. She has participated in the SoHo Rep. Writer/Director Lab, the Women Playwrights Festival at SRC, and the O'Neill National Playwright's Festival. In 2009, her play Shapeshifter premiered at Trinity Repertory Company, and Courting Vampires opened at Boston Court Theatre in PasadenA. Auctioning the Ainsleys received its world premiere at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto after workshops at Northlight Theatre and Steppenwolf. the K of D premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theatre after workshops at Trinity Rep, ACT in Seattle, and the Kennedy Center. Air Guitar High premiered at Northwestern University after workshops at Pasadena Playhouse, the Bonderman Symposium in Indianapolis, and as part of the National High School Institute mainstage season. Her current project, Upright Grand, will launch this spring in Chicago, as part of Northlight Theatre's Interplay series. Laura holds degrees in Theatre and English from Northwestern and an MFA in playwriting from Brown University where she studied under Paula Vogel. She currently teaches playwriting at Northwestern University.

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         Air Guitar High         Apothecary's Daughter, The         Auctioning the Ainsleys         Comparables, The         Courting Vampires         Creole Folktales         How to Remove Blood From a Carpet         Je Ne Sais Quoi         K Of D, The         Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The         Outfit, The         Phantom Tollbooth, The         Shapeshifter, Inheritance

Air Guitar High

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Scrug, Iowa where nothing ever happens - until the National Air Guitar Championships comes to town. Two High Schoolers make a documentary about the event

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Apothecary's Daughter, The

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Auctioning the Ainsleys

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Three Ainsley siblings live with their ageing mother and run her auction company. Mother drops a bombshell by announcing she is going to auction their house and all its contents

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Comparables, The

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three women vie for power in the cut-throat world of high-end realty. Bette runs her own female-dominated agency. Monica is her loyal second-in-command. Iris is the savvy new hire. When Bette's reputation falls under attack, the future of the agency is at stake. Who, if anyone, will survive the ordeal, and to what lengths will they go to ensure success? A dark comedy that begs the question: for women in the competitive world, is there more than one way to do business?

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The Lilly Awards Foundation proudly presents the Inaugural (3)Plays from The Kilroys' List: A Reading Series

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[reading] The Duke on 42nd Street, located at 229 W 42nd Street in NYC    09 Mar 2015

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Courting Vampires

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Creole Folktales

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How to Remove Blood From a Carpet

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Je Ne Sais Quoi

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K Of D, The

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On the way to school, a young boy is struck by a rusty Dodge, and watching him fly over the road and land before a billboard that reads God Sees You  are his pack of friends and his twin sister Charlotte. Everyone sees her run to where he will land, cradle his head, and receive his last words and a kiss.

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Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The

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Outfit, The

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Phantom Tollbooth, The

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Shapeshifter, Inheritance

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