Biography
Laura Pittenger is a novelist, playwright, director, dramaturg, and proud resident of Astoria, Queens in New York City.
Laura's plays have been published by YouthPLAYS (Pride and Prejudice Abridged) and Smith & Kraus (The Gospel of Huxley in 105 Ten-Minute Plays for Study and Performance). Her plays have been produced at the internationally-acclaimed FringeNYC (The HVAC Plays); The Sheen Center Theater Festival (The Drill); The Gallery Players (Brooklyn, NY; Thou Shalt Not), GI60's International One-Minute Theatre Festival (Sandwiches and Nibon, co-written with Meron Langsner), and Ball State University (Daughters of Trinity: Women of the Manhattan Project, led by Jennifer Blackmer). Laura's plays have also received workshops with 3V Theatre, One Bird Productions, Alaska's Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, The Playwrights' Center, and Ball State University. Laura has directed at The Tank (NYC premiere of Jason Hall's thriller Third Floor), Project Y (Parity Plays), The Producers Club (Turn to Flesh Productions) and several productions at Ball State University.
Laura has worked with the New Sanctuary Coalition and Robert Choiniere to create interview-based theater with immigrants living in New York City. Laura is also an inaugural Playwriting Fellow at the Sheen Center with her play The Honor of Your Presence. She was commissioned by Project Y to write An Unexpected Resurrection, a free adaptation of the work of Hroswitha of Gandershaim, for the Fourth Annual Women in Theater Festival. Previously, Laura also served as the literary manager of Turn to Flesh Productions, an NYC-based female-focused theater company specializing in heightened text. She was a 2020 A Collective Artists resident writer and is a founding member of Ellipses, an all-female writer's group.
Laura is working on her second novel of historical fiction and is represented by Aimee Ashcraft of Brower Literary.
Laura is a founding board member and treasurer of Catholic Artist Connection. She hails from Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from the Honors College at Ball State University with a B.A. in theatre production for directing, summa cum laude, and academic honors in writing.
While she is not writing, Laura enjoys baking, Russian novels, high tea, and accumulating more candles than she can feasibly burn in a year.
Laura's plays have been published by YouthPLAYS (Pride and Prejudice Abridged) and Smith & Kraus (The Gospel of Huxley in 105 Ten-Minute Plays for Study and Performance). Her plays have been produced at the internationally-acclaimed FringeNYC (The HVAC Plays); The Sheen Center Theater Festival (The Drill); The Gallery Players (Brooklyn, NY; Thou Shalt Not), GI60's International One-Minute Theatre Festival (Sandwiches and Nibon, co-written with Meron Langsner), and Ball State University (Daughters of Trinity: Women of the Manhattan Project, led by Jennifer Blackmer). Laura's plays have also received workshops with 3V Theatre, One Bird Productions, Alaska's Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, The Playwrights' Center, and Ball State University. Laura has directed at The Tank (NYC premiere of Jason Hall's thriller Third Floor), Project Y (Parity Plays), The Producers Club (Turn to Flesh Productions) and several productions at Ball State University.
Laura has worked with the New Sanctuary Coalition and Robert Choiniere to create interview-based theater with immigrants living in New York City. Laura is also an inaugural Playwriting Fellow at the Sheen Center with her play The Honor of Your Presence. She was commissioned by Project Y to write An Unexpected Resurrection, a free adaptation of the work of Hroswitha of Gandershaim, for the Fourth Annual Women in Theater Festival. Previously, Laura also served as the literary manager of Turn to Flesh Productions, an NYC-based female-focused theater company specializing in heightened text. She was a 2020 A Collective Artists resident writer and is a founding member of Ellipses, an all-female writer's group.
Laura is working on her second novel of historical fiction and is represented by Aimee Ashcraft of Brower Literary.
Laura is a founding board member and treasurer of Catholic Artist Connection. She hails from Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from the Honors College at Ball State University with a B.A. in theatre production for directing, summa cum laude, and academic honors in writing.
While she is not writing, Laura enjoys baking, Russian novels, high tea, and accumulating more candles than she can feasibly burn in a year.
