Playwright

Lauren writes “the best kind of science fiction,” (Chicago Onstage), and also non-genre stories that “strike a fine balance between laugh-out-loud absurdity and gut-wrenching human drama” (DC Metro Arts). She is the recent recipient of the 2021 Planet Earth Arts Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center for her play Goods, which premiered virtually with Artemisia in spring 2021 to critical acclaim from Chicago press. She was a 2020 Arkansas Arts Council Screenwriting fellow for her screenplay Brilliance, which was a 2023 finalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship at Stowe Story Labs.

She's also made shortlists in multiple playwriting competitions and screenplay competitions, most notably the O’Neill (twice), Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Princess Grace Award, and the Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship. She’s been a juried writing fellow at the New Harmony Project, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Saltonstall, and HUB-BUB. She is also a published flash fiction author. MFA, University of Arkansas, BFA, NYU/Tisch.

Erin Nicole Eggers (she/her) is a freelance director, AEA stage manager, and passport stamp collector originally from Milwaukee, WI. Directing credits include Macbeth (American Players Theatre), People of the Book (ACT Seattle), American Buffalo (TheatreX Cairo, Egypt), The Dumb Waiter and True West (Alchemist), Antarctica, WI (First Stage), Proof (Wisconsin Lutheran College), Red Bike and The Revolutionists (UMass Amherst), and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Quality Street, The Endurance of Light, Best of Enemies, and Sense and Sensibility (Acacia). Erin believes in theatre that centers joy, prioritizes radical inclusion, and dreams the culture forward. Erin is the Production Manager at Paramount Theatre in Aurora, IL.

Producer

Production Manager