Ginger Lazarus
Ginger Lazarus is a Boston-based playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. She is developing a new musical, RADIANCE OF THE DAY: AN IMMIGRANTS' STORY, with In Good Company. Central Square Theater produced a reading of her new play, THE AKHMATOVA JOURNALS, in their That's What She Said program; she also collaborated with CST to create a documentary play on immigration, HERE AND THERE. Other productions...
Ginger Lazarus is a Boston-based playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. She is developing a new musical, RADIANCE OF THE DAY: AN IMMIGRANTS' STORY, with In Good Company. Central Square Theater produced a reading of her new play, THE AKHMATOVA JOURNALS, in their That's What She Said program; she also collaborated with CST to create a documentary play on immigration, HERE AND THERE. Other productions include THE HOUSEKEEPER with Fresh Ink Theatre in Boston and BURNING with Resonance Ensemble in New York. The Boston Playwrights’ Theatre production of BURNING won the 2013 Boston My Theatre Award for Best New Work. Her plays have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater’s 24/7 Festival, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival, Women’s Theatre Project’s Naked Women Fully Clothed, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab. Two of her short plays also appeared at the Warehouse Theatre and Canal Café Theatre in London. Her screenwriting credits include two award-winning shorts for the Boston 48 Hour Film Festival; MARY, a film based on her stageplay; and consulting work on the critically acclaimed feature LEAVE NO TRACE. Ginger holds a master’s degree in playwriting from Boston University and teaches at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Stagesource.