Lauren M. Gunderson (she/her – Book writer) 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 Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She has premiered 5 plays at Marin Theatre Company: I and You, Miss Bennet, The Wickhams, Georgianna and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley and The Catastrophist. 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. She is on the board of The Playwrights Foundation and a member of the Aspen Institute's Science and Society Cohort. LaurenGunderson.com