A Little about Laura

Laura Thoma (she/her) is an award-winning, trauma-informed playwright and theatremaker originally from Tidewater, Virginia, who first fell in love with the art of storytelling through classical ballet. When the first half of her career as a dancer and choreographer abruptly ended due to injury, she found herself drawn to the page. Laura is thrilled to have found her way back to her sacred space of theatre through writing.

She is the recipient of the 2024 GreenStage Artists' Award Grant in Drama and is currently working on "Letter to My Soul," which will premiere at the Festival in August. 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 graduate of the Dramatist Guild Institute of Dramatic Writing and co-founder of Shoreline Playwrights, a partnership that develops new work.

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

Laura has developed her work with various theaters and organizations, including The Bechdel Group, Legacy Theatre, Cape May Stage, Theatre Odyssey, Chestnut Street Playhouse, Marist College, Drama Works Theatre Company, GreenStage Guilford Live Arts, and the North American Cultural Laboratory. She is a member of AEA, Dramatist Guild, and Honor Roll!

When she's not writing, Laura can be found driving back roads and exploring old two-lane highways with her bookish wife, Chris, and their dog, Buddy Fitzwilliam.