Lauren Holmes is a playwright and producer from Dedham, Massachusetts. She’s the recipient of the 2024 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/New Dramatists Residency, a Venturous Playwrights Fellowship 2025 nomination, and a 2024 Woodward Residency. She recently adapted Olga Ravn’s novel The Employees for a production at Theaterlab. Her work has been developed at Theaterlab, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and The Brick. Lauren’s been longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award 2024/25, a finalist for the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women, and the Risk Theatre Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, The Terrence McNally Fellowship, The Next Forever Residency, The Civilians R&D Lab, and WP Lab. Before becoming a playwright, Lauren worked on political campaigns, in the private sector, and for the United Nations in Italy and New York. She draws on these experiences to write dark, comic plays about work, class, families of happenstance, and seekers of hidden knowledge. They’re grounded in realism, but full of ghosts, invisible dogs, aliens, and other spirits. MFA in playwriting from Hunter College. laurenholm.es