A Little about Laura

Laura Thoma (she/her) is a trauma-informed, award winning playwright and short film writer born under a magnolia tree in Tidewater, Virginia. The first half of her career as a dancer and choreographer ended abruptly due to injury. She is thrilled to have found her way back to her sacred space through writing. 

Laura is an alum of the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive, the National Playwrights’ Symposium, Pawling Theatre Exchange Playwrights Residency, The Desert Playwrights Retreat, and THE OUTRAGE: A Queer Writers’ Residency. She is a Dramatist Guild Institute of Dramatic Writing graduate and cofounder of Shoreline Playwrights, a partnership that develops new work.

Her work is heavily influenced by her background in dance and choreography. Laura loves to play with form, patterns, rhythm, and flow while creating and exploring women-centric stories of queerness, aging, intergenerational connectedness, mental health, and hope. She aspires to write stories that are sacred mirrors to others who do not feel seen.

Laura has developed her work with various theaters and organizations, including The Bechdel Group, Legacy Theatre, Cape May Stage, Odyssey Theatre, Chestnut Street Playhouse, Marist College, Drama Works Theatre Company, GreenStage Guilford Live Arts, and the North American Cultural Laboratory.

When she’s not writing plays, books, or screenplays, Laura can be found driving backroads and exploring old two-lane highways with her bookish wife, Chris, and their dog, Buddy Fitzwilliam.