Lauren Gunderson

Lauren Gunderson (born February 5, 1982) is an award-winning American playwright, born in Atlanta. She currently lives in San Francisco.

Gunderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Emory University in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

She writes about women in science and history, and comedies based on Shakespeare.

She is married to virologist Nathan Wolfe.

Gunderson is one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country, and in 2016 was America's most produced living playwright.

Gunderson was awarded the Lanford Wilson award in 2016.

Her play "I and You" was the winner of the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Gunderson's play Exit, Pursued By A Bear has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin, Texas.

Her play Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, about the real-life 18th-century physicist Émilie du Châtelet was commissioned and developed at South Coast Repertory as part of their 2008 Pacific Playwrights Festival directed by Kate Whorisky. It was produced the following year directed by David Emmes. On 25 January 2011, it opened in West Seattle, at Arts West Theater. It is published by Samuel French, Inc. (2010).Émilie received its European and British premiere in Oxford, UK during February 2014.

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