Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and her play The Half-Life of Marie Curie is available on Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/Amazon. LaurenGunderson.com

A great collection of plays if you want to explore modern feminism in theatre but also look at how theatre can bring history to life … Reading the preface with students will give them a real insight into what it is like to be a playwright and what playwrights should consider when writing a play … It is rare to get this in-depth insight into how a playwright's mind works and what has inspired them.

• Preface by Lauren GundersonIntroduction by Julie Felise DubinerEmilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life TonightThe RevolutionistsAda and the EngineSilent SkyNatural Shocks

Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and her play The Half-Life of Marie Curie is available on Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/Amazon. LaurenGunderson.com

A great collection of plays if you want to explore modern feminism in theatre but also look at how theatre can bring history to life … Reading the preface with students will give them a real insight into what it is like to be a playwright and what playwrights should consider when writing a play … It is rare to get this in-depth insight into how a playwright's mind works and what has inspired them.

• Preface by Lauren GundersonIntroduction by Julie Felise DubinerEmilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life TonightThe RevolutionistsAda and the EngineSilent SkyNatural Shocks