Lavinia Roberts is a published and award-winning playwright, puppet designer, and arts educator. She has over fifty plays for school and community theatres published with Applause Books, Beldon Worship Resources, Big Dog Plays, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer Publishing, Plays; The Drama Magazine for Young People, Pioneer Drama, Smith and Kraus, and Standard Publishing.

Her curriculum book, "A Little Drama; Playful Activities for Young Children" is published with Redleaf Press.

Her work has been performed in all 50 states and internationally in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

Her play "Counting Skunks," won the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award at the Castillo Theatre in New York City.

Her play "Eaten Voices" won $5000 and best production in festival at the Thespis Theatre Festival in New York City. Eaten Voices went on to productions with The New Alchemists in Seattle, the Bread and Roses Theatre in London, and with Gadfly Productions in Minneapolis.

She was a member of the Women’s Writers Lab at the New Perspective Theatre in New York City.

Her work has been featured in New York City at HERE Arts Center, Galapagos Art Space, The Metropolitan Playhouse, in the New York Fringe Festival, and other spaces. She has directed her work in NYC at The Secret Theatre, Dixon Place, The Brick, The Bushwick Starr, the Sheen Center, and The Tank.

She has taught puppetry, visual art, and theatre with various arts organizations in New York City including Arts Connection, Project Art, Trinity Church Wall Street, Saint David’s School, and Writers Theatre of New Jersey, and Hartley House.

In Kansas, she has taught at The Lawrence Arts Center, The William Inge Center for the Arts, and at the Topeka Civic Theatre and Academy.

She also devised performances with young people in the Philippines and Thailand while there on artist residencies, collaborating and learning from local arts educators.

Lavinia also creates masks and puppets for film and theatre. Her work has been shown in New York City at Frontrunner Gallery, The Brooklyn Fireproof, Urban Glass, on Governors Island, and other spaces.

She has done artist residencies at the Arts Students League at Vyt (Sparkill, NY), The Center for Books Arts (NYC, NY), The Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, KS), The Midwest Dramatists Center (Kansas City, KS), Newnan ArtRez (Newnan, GA), onelove NOLA (New Orleans, LA), Paul Artspace (St. Louis, MO), Escape to Create (Seaside, FL), Salina Art Center (Salina, KS), Surel’s Place (Boise, ID), Urban Glass (NYC, NY), and Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY).

She has a MA in Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities from New York University and an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

She is currently Assistant Professor & Murphy Fellow in Theatre Arts, Hendrix College in Conway, AR.