Laura Neill (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based playwright. She is a NYSCA 2025 grantee, sponsored by Working Theater, for her play Foot Wears House, featured in Fast Company and Jacobin.

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In 2024, Laura completed commissions for Keen Company (the doctor will see you shortly) and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project (C-WIID: a comedy!).

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They developed their play Winter People at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Laura's play I Love You Elizabeth Warren won the Clauder Competition Massachusetts prize. Selected productions include Isolated Incidents (Broadway Podcast Network and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, commission), Public Property (Salvage Vanguard Theatre), Skin and Bones (Wilbury Theatre Group), Don't Give Up the Ship (premiere, Fresh Ink Theatre), and DIVAS (OperaHub, commission and premiere). They were commissioned by SpeakEasy Stage Company's Boston Project (Just Cause).

 

Published plays include Almost Tragic (Uproar Theatrics), Game Night (Stage Partners), Funtown (YouthPLAYS), The Last Cookie (Stage Partners, Ten-ish Comedies), One Kind of Fear (Flowersong Press, upcoming), Don't Give Up the Ship (Uproar Theatrics), The Last Red Lion (ScriptWorks’ Perfect Glitch), and Applause Books anthologies. Her plays have been recognized as semi-finalists or finalists by Local Lab, Premiere Stages, Blank/UCross Future of Playwriting Prize, Gulfshore Playhouse, McNerney Award, the Princess Grace fellowship, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the ATHE Judith Royer Award, and more.

 

Laura was an affiliate of the Company One PlayLab, and was playwright-in-residence at University of Tulsa's WomenWorks. She has taught creative writing and theatre at universities across the country, including Emerson College, Boston College, Austin Community College, and TCU. Teaching both college and high school students inspired her to write for teen casts as well as professional casts. She completed her MFA in Playwriting at Boston University.

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They coordinate the "playwright amoeba," a casual hangout space for playwright community. She lives in Flatbush with her partner Jaymes Sanchez and their gigantic fluffy dog Peppercorn.

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