LAURA EASON

Laura Eason (she/her) is a long-time Lookingglass Ensemble Member and has served the company as a writer, director, actor, literary manager and, for six years, Artistic Director. Now primarily a screenwriter, Laura most recently was executive producer/showrunner of the Starz forthcoming drama series Three Women. Her other writing and producing credits for TV include the Showtime drama The Loudest Voice (WGA nomination; Golden Globe nomination, limited series) and four seasons of Netflix’s five-time Emmy-nominated best drama series House of Cards (Emmy and WGA nominations, drama series.) Laura’s feature film debut, Here and Now, produced and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (then titled Blue Night) and is available on demand. A Jeff Award award-winning playwright, her more than twenty produced plays and adaptations include Sex with Strangers which began at Steppenwolf in Chicago before playing Second Stage in NYC (NYT Critic’s pick.) The play was one of the most produced in the U.S. with international productions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Taiwan and Turkey. Laura’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days began under her direction in Chicago (seven Jeff Award nominations including Best Production and Best Adaptation) and went onto subsequent productions in London and eighteen other UK cities before transferring to the New Victory Theatre in NYC (NYT Critic’s pick.) Her plays are published by Nick Hern Books, Overlook Press, DPS & Broadway Play Publishing. Laura is an alumna of Piven Theatre Workshop, the Performance Studies Department of Northwestern University, and the WP Playwrights Lab in NYC. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. A third generation Chicagoan, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family. More information at lauraeason.com.

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Bio as of 2023