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Lauren Gunderson (born February 5, 1982) is an award-winning American playwright, born in Atlanta. She currently lives in San Francisco. Gunderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Emory University in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Graduate Fellowship – Lauren Gunderson )〕 She writes about women in science and history, and comedies based on Shakespeare. She is married to virologist Nathan Wolfe. ==Theatrical credits== Gunderson's play ''Exit, Pursued By A Bear'' has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin, Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Playscripts, Inc )〕 Her play ''Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight'', about the real-life 18th-century physicist Émilie du Châtelet was commissioned and developed at South Coast Repertory as part of their 2008 Pacific Playwrights Festival directed by Kate Whorisky. It was produced the following year directed by David Emmes. On 25 January 2011, it opened in West Seattle, at Arts West Theater. It is published by Samuel French, Inc. (2010). ''Émilie'' received its European and British premiere in Oxford, UK during February 2014. ''Fire Work'' was developed at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center in 2009.〔()〕 Gunderson's play ''Leap'', about a young Isaac Newton, was produced by Theatre Emory in 2004, directed by Megan Monaghan. Her play ''Parts They Call Deep'' won the 2002 Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition and was produced Off-Broadway by Young Playwrights Inc. as part of the young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater. "Parts They Call Deep" and ''Background'' won her the Essential Theatre Prize in 2000 and 2004. ''Background'', about physicist Ralph Alpher, was published by ''Isotope: A Literary Journal of Nature and Science Writing'' (2009, issue 7.2).〔() 〕 The San Francisco Playhouse commissioned Gunderson's 2014 play ''Bauer'' about the artists Rudolf Bauer and Hilla von Rebay. Gunderson’s play ''Ada and the Memory Engine,'' about the relationship between Lady Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, was produced by the Central Works Theater of Berkeley, California, in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lauren Gunderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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