Artist Bios: Laura Harrington  

LAURA HARRINGTON's award winning plays, musicals, operas, and radio plays have been produced regionally, Off-Broadway, in Canada, and in Europe. Some recent credits include: THE BOOK OF HOURS, Wellesley Summer Theatre, Portland Stage’s Little Festival, HALLOWED GROUND, Portland Stage Company, 2002, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Tulane University, etc; MARTIN GUERRE, (music: Roger Ames), Hartford Stage Company (directed by Mark Lamos); THE HEART OF AN EMPEROR, DRESS RIGHT, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, and FLAG GIRLS, Boston Playwrights Theatre; THE BATHTUB DIARIES, Portland Stage; RESURRECTION, (Music: Tod Machover), Houston Grand Opera 1999, Boston Lyric Opera, 2001); JOAN OF ARC, (Music: Mel Marvin), Wellesley College, Manhattan Theatre Club workshop, THE PERFECT 36 (Music: Mel Marvin), Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Hartt School of Music; MARATHON DANCING, (directed by Anne Bogart) En Garde Arts, NYC, and Munich, Germany; LUCY'S LAPSES (Music: Christopher Drobny), Playwrights Horizons, NYC, and Portland Opera Company; THE SONG OF THE SILKIE, (music: Elena Ruehr) Rockport Chamber Music Festival; BABES IN TOYLAND, Houston Grand Opera; and SLEEPING BEAUTY (Music: Roger Ames), North Shore Music Theatre.

Ms. Harrington is on the faculty at MIT where she teaches playwriting and is currently a Visiting Briggs Copeland lecturer at Harvard as well. She is the winner of the 1998 Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Fellowship, and a two time winner of the Clauder Playwriting Competition. Other awards include a Boston "IRNE" Award for Best New Play, 2001 (for HALLOWED GROUND), a Bunting Institute Fellowship at Harvard/ Radcliffe, a Whiting Foundation Grant-in-Aid, the Joseph Kesselring Award for Drama, a New England Emmy, and a Quebec Cinemateque Award.

She is currently writing an opera with the composer Deborah Drattell about Alma Mahler. Upcoming productions include “N”, a tragicomedy about Napoleon in exile, which will premiere at the BCA in Boston in September with the Pilgrim Theatre Company, Kim Mancuso directing.