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Laura Shaine Cunningham
Playwright Laura Shaine Cunningham is also an author and journalist. She has written two memoirs, Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country, both first published in The New Yorker magazine, and now in hardcover and paperback editions, from Penguin Putnam (Riverhead). Her most recent novel, Beautiful Bodies, was published in June 2002, by Washington Square Press, a division of Simon and Schuster.
Her plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, in New York, regional theaters across the United States, and in London and Portugal. She has been awarded the National Endowments of the Arts and New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowships in both literature and theater. She is an alumnae of New Dramatists and a playwright member at The Actors Studio and Herbert Berghof Theatres. She has developed her plays in performance at Manhattan Theater Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, W P A, Actors and Writers, and New Dramatists.
As a journalist, she is frequent contributor to The New York Times and many national magazines. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and The New York Times Magazine. Laura Shaine Cunningham won the prestigious Standard Gravure Award for Best Profile in a Sunday Magazine.
Her play BANG was nominated for the Jefferson award for Best New Play and received a 2002 Dutchess County Council of the Arts grant.
She is the mother of two young daughters and is a native New Yorker.
Visit Laura Shaine Cunningham on the web at laurashainecunningham.com