LAUREN GUNDERSON 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. Her musical adaptation of The Time Traveller's Wife premiered on the West End this year and The Guardian called her “the most popular playwright in America”. Her new anthology of plays, Revolutionary Women, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

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