THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE

Lauren has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I AND YOU and THE BOOK OF WILL, the winner of the winner of the William Inge Distinguished Achievement in Theatre Award, the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children’s author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. LaurenGunderson.com

Belvoir: WINYANBOGA YURRINGA, HIR, KILL THE MESSENGER, CINDERELLA, FORGET ME NOT & OLD MAN. Carriageworks: SLEEPLESSNESS. Griffin Theatre: PONY & SINCE ALI DIED. Melbourne Theatre Company: COST OF LIVING. National Theatre of Parramatta: FLIGHT PATHS & THING I COULD NEVER TELL STEVEN. NIDA: FIRST LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION, LOVE AND INFORMATION, THE COLBY SISTERS OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA & #KILLALLMEN. PYT: THE HEN HOUSE. Red Line: THE HUMANS. Urban Theatre Projects: M’AP BOUL´E. The Bush (UK): TWO CIGARETTES, 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER, TURF, SUDDENLOSSOFDIGNITY.COM, & THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY FETE. The Court (Aotearoa): THE APPLETON LADIES POTATO RACE & THE PINK HAMMER. Film: SAFETY NET. Awards: Best Director, Sydney Theatre Award for HIR. Training: University of NSW and Victorian College of the Arts.

Ensemble Theatre: DEBUT: Belvoir: HOLDING THE MAN, WAYSIDE BRIDE & LIGHT SHINING IN B’SHIRE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING, EXIT THE KING, IT JUST STOPPED, STUFF HAPPENS, THE UNDERPANTS, MACBETH, CLOUDSTREET, SMALL POPPIES, THE ALCHEMIST, WASP. Sydney Theatre Company: DINNER, CHIMERICA, AFTER DINNER, PERPLEX, VERE, TRAVESTIES. Griffin Theatre Company: FIRST LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION, KILL CLIMATE DENIERS, SHIP OF FOOLS. Bell Shakespeare: THE MISANTHROPE, HENRY 4 (PARTS 1 & 2). Club House Productions: 44 SEX ACTS IN ONE WEEK. State Theatre Company of SA/Belvoir: DANCE NATION.  Film: BLAZE, BAD GIRL, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, THE BLACK BALLOON. Television: UTOPIA (S2-5), CHANDON PICTURES (S1-2), TOTAL CONTROL, EROTIC STORIES, UPRIGHT, THE PRINCIPAL, BARONS, DEEP WATER, METRO SEXUAL (S1-2), THE MESSENGER, LOWDOWN. Awards: Green Room Award and Glug Award – IT JUST STOPPED.

Ensemble Theatre: E-BABY, BLOOD BANK. Royal National Theatre: THE CONFESSIONS. 25A Belvoir: THE EDIT. An Assorted Few/KXT: IRONBOUND. Belvoir Street Theatre: HURT. Cross Pollinate Productions: THE VILLAGE BIKE. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: SOUND OF WAITING, YOUNG TYCOONS, RIDE / FOURPLAY. FortyFive Downstairs: YOUNG AND JACKSONS. Old 505: HURT. Seymour Centre: THE UNDERPANTS. Sport for Jove: EAR TO THE EDGE OF TIME, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, SHAKESPEAREALISM. Unlikely Productions / ATYP: STOP KISS. Vaults London: THE APOLOGISTS. Film: NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY, BEFORE THE RAIN, JIMMY TENNISON. TV: FRESH BLOOD: ONE CONNECTION, DR BLAKE MYSTERIES, THE KILLING FIELDS, DEADLY WOMEN, FRESH MEAT. Radio: LIFE LINES BBC. Podcast: BACK FROM REALITY. Training: National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Ensemble Theatre : THE GREAT DIVIDE. Crossroads Live: GREASE. Monkey Baa Theatre Company: YONG, JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE and PETE THE SHEEP. CDP: TURNS, TIM, SPOT THE DOG. David Venn Enterprises: CRUEL INTENTIONS. Griffin Theatre Company: LADIES DAY, DIVING FOR PEARLS. Hayes Theatre Co: CABARET, XANADU. Joint Ventures: MIDNIGHT. Merrigong Theatre Company: LETTERS TO LINDY. Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta: GUARDS AT THE TAJ. Sydney Opera House: VELVET, CIRQUE STRATOSPHERE and BLANC DE BLANC. Theatre Creation Japan: GHOST. Victorian Opera: THE SELFISH GIANT. Awards: Best Costume Design 2020 Broadway World Sydney Awards (Musical HAIR). Nominations in the Australian Production Design Awards, Green Room Awards and Sydney Theatre Awards. Training: Theatre Design at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Australian Film Television and Radio School in Art Direction.

Ensemble Theatre: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, THE HEARTBREAK CHOIR, MURDER AT HAMLINGTON HALL, THE ONE, BABY DOLL, FULLY COMMITTED, THE ANZAC PROJECT. Bell Shakespeare: HENRY V, TWELFTH NIGHT, TITUS ANDRONICUS, JULIUS CAESAR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Belvoir: JESUS WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM, WINYANBOGA YURRINGA, ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, THE DROVER’S WIFE, IVANOV. Griffin: NUCLEUS, BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS, JAILBABY, PONY, GHOSTING THE PARTY, ORANGE THROWER, DOGGED, SUPERHEROES, THE BLEEDING TREE. Hayes Theatre, ZOMBIE! THE MUSICAL, LIZZIE. La Boite: ONE THE BEAR, BLACKROCK, LA VOIX HUMANE. Malthouse: WAKE IN FRIGHT, BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN, FIERY MAZE (with Sydney Festival). Opera Australia: IL TRITTICO, IDOMENEO (with Victorian Opera), THE MAGIC FLUTE. Sydney Theatre Company: SWEAT, FENCES, CITY OF GOLD (with BSSTC), A RAISIN IN THE SUN, HOME I’M DARLING, 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING, BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN. Queensland Theatre: DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Awards: Three Sydney Theatre Awards. Two Green Room Awards. Australian Production Design Guild Award.  The Mike Walsh Fellowship.

Clockfire Theatre Company: PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. ERTH Visual & Physical Inc: ARC. Essential Workers: COLLAPSIBLE. Griffin Theatre Company: THE LEWIS TRILOGY, WHITEFELLA YELLA TREE. Hayes Theatre Company: MURDER FOR TWO, RIDE THE CYCLONE, FLAT EARTHERS THE MUSICAL, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. National Theatre Of Parramatta: FADE. Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts: AT THE END OF THE LAND. Redline Productions: THE CHAIRS, HAND TO GOD. Sydney Festival: WILLIAM YANG: MILESTONE, SET PIECE. Sydney Theatre Company: RULES FOR LIVING. Tinderbox Productions: BLACK BOX THE MUSICAL. Michael Cassel Group: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Broadway Tour). Awards: THE LEWIS TRILOGY (Best Sound Design and Composition of a Mainstage Production Nomination).

Ensemble Theatre: BENFACTORS, BOXING DAY BBQ, RAINMAN, THE RUBY SUNRISE. Belvoir:  AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, THE DOG AND THE CAT, THE DROVERS WIFE, EVERY BRILLIANT THING, FANGIRLS, GIRLASLEEP, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, HIR, JASPER JONES, KILL THE MESSENGER, MOTHER, MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, MY NAME IS JIMI, STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON, THE SUGAR HOUSE, THYESTES WELL BEHAVED WOMEN, WINYANBOGA YURRINGA. Circus Oz: CRANKED UP. Griffin: AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART, BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS, GREEN PARK, REPLAY, SEX MAGICK, SWIM, THE SMALLEST HOUR, THIS YEARS ASHES, UGLY MUGS, WHITEFELLA YELLA TREE, WICKED SISTERS. Legs on the Wall: BUBBLE. LWAA: THE MOUSETRAP. Sydney Theatre Company; BLITHE SPIRIT. Spiegelworld: EMPIRE. Sydney Festival: A MODEL MURDER.

Belvoir Street Theatre: NEVER CLOSER, JACKY (with Melbourne Theatre Company), BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY. Griffin Theatre Company: GOLDEN BLOOD (with Sydney Theatre Company). Joshua Robson Productions: IN THE HEIGHTS (with the Sydney Opera House). Training: The National Institute of Dramatic Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Technical Theatre and Stage Management.

Costume Designer/Supervisor: Ensemble Theatre: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, COLDER THAN HERE,  THE QUEEN’S NANNY. Belvoir Street Theatre: PROPOISE POOL 25A SEASON. Hayes Theatre Co: PIRATES OF PENZANCE, LITTLE WOMEN. Kings Cross Theatre on Broadway (KXT): RHOMBIOD, GRAIN IN THE BLOOD, THE PIGEONS. Costume Supervisor: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: INFERNO. Pinchgut Opera: DIDO AND AENEAS. National Institute of Dramatic Arts Production Seasons: A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON (Paid Professional), ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT MOULD, FALSETTOS, BETH. Head of Wardrobe: Victorian Opera: IL TABARRO. Films: APPLETON LADIES POTATO RACE, FIVE BLIND DATES. TV: HOUSE OF GODS, THE TWELVE (Season 1), HARDBALL (Season 2), THE OTHER GUY (Season 2). Training: National Institute of Dramatic Art, (BFA Costume) ENMORE DESIGN CENTRE. Awards: Nominated Best Costume Design for RHOMBOID at Sydney Broadway Awards 2023.