Laurie Brooks Currently Professor and Playwright in Residence at New York University’s Program in Educational Theatre, and The Coterie in Kansas City, MO, Laurie Brooks is a site reporter for The National Endowment for the Arts, a board member of ASSITEJ/USA, and a member of The Dramatists Guild. Her Lies and Deceptions Quartet for young adults includes The Wrestling Season, featured at New Visions 2000: One Theatre World, at The Kennedy Center and printed in The American Theatre, November, 2000. The Quartet also includes Deadly Weapons, commissioned and devised with Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, Ireland, 1998, nominated for a Leon Rabin Award for best new play in Dallas, 2002; The Tangled Web, Irish version commissioned and devised with Graffiti Theatre Company, 2000, American version commissioned by The Coterie, 2002, AT&T Firststage Award from Theatre Communications Group and Everyday Heroes, commissioned and premiered by The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration and Salt Lake City in conjunction with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Additional award-winning plays include Devon’s Hurt; The Match Girl’s Gift, commissioned by Nashville Children’s Theatre; Franklin’s Apprentice, commissioned by Stage One: Louisville Children’s Theatre; Between Land and Sea: A Selkie Myth, and A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas, both co-commissioned by The Coterie and Nashville Children’s Theatre. Brooks has worked with young playwright programs at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX and The Coterie. Her play, The 12:07, will be developed this year at Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia, directed by Jeff Church. Brooks and The Coterie are recipients of a 2004 National Theatre Artist Residency Program Grant from Theatre Communications Group, funded by by Pew Charitable Trusts. Brooks has
received a 2004 Irish Arts
Council
Commissioning Artist Grant with Graffiti Theatre Company.
Brooks’ plays
have received two AATE Distinguished Play Awards and the 2003
Charlotte Chorpenning Cup for a distinguished body of work for
young people. |
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