Laura Jacqmin

Laura Jacqmin

Laura Jacqmin is a Los Angeles-based writer for television, video games, and the live theater. She’s been a writer-producer for the hit EPIX series "Get Shorty" (starring Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano) for three seasons, and is a founding member of The Kilroys.

Selected plays: "Residence" (40th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville); "...
Laura Jacqmin is a Los Angeles-based writer for television, video games, and the live theater. She’s been a writer-producer for the hit EPIX series "Get Shorty" (starring Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano) for three seasons, and is a founding member of The Kilroys.

Selected plays: "Residence" (40th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville); "January Joiner" (Long Wharf Theatre); Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre); "A Third" (Finborough Theatre/Fat Git); "Look, we are breathing" (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble; Sundance Theatre Lab); "Dental Society Midwinter Meeting" (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Additionally, her work has been developed and produced by Atlantic Theater, Roundabout Underground, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Northlight Theatre, Ars Nova, Second Stage, Lark Theatre, and more. She is a two-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of the Royal Court Theatre's International Playwrights Group, and a winner of the Wasserstein Prize.

Other television: "Grace and Frankie" (Netflix); "Lucky 7" (ABC). Video Games: "Life 2.0" (FoxNext/Fogbank), "The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier", and "Minecraft: Story Mode" (both with Telltale Games). She received her BA from Yale University, and earned an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.

Plays

  • Residence
    When new mom and medical supply saleswoman Maggie moves into an extended-stay hotel in Tempe, Arizona, she brings a troubled history and tenuous grasp on the future with her. While trying to secure her first sale since returning to work, she befriends two hotel employees whose careers and life paths are nearly as shaky as her own.
  • January Joiner
    Eat less. Exercise more. Make healthy choices. Ignore the bloodthirsty vending machine when it speaks to you. Myrtle and her sister Terry enroll at Evolve in sunny Florida in order to transform their lives. But at what cost? A weight loss horror-comedy that asks: what happens when the people closest to us change?

    World premiere Long Wharf Theatre, 2013, dir. Eric Ting

    Recipient of a 2013 NEA Art Works Grant