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name: Laurie Brooks
about: Laurie Brooks is an award-winning playwright and YA fiction author.Awards and grants include TCG's National Theatre Artists Residency Program, AT&amp;T Firststage award, three Distinguished Play Awards and the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup from AATE, NY Foundation for the Arts, and Irish Arts Council Commissioning Grant (with Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, Ireland).Brooks' Lies and Deceptions Quartet for young adults includes The Wrestling Season, commissioned by The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO, featured at The Kennedy Center's One Theatre World, printed in the Playscript Series, November 2000, American Theatre magazine, and winner of "Best of" awards in Seattle, Kansas City and Dallas.Additional award-winning plays include Deadly Weapons, Th Laurie Brooks is an award-winning playwright and YA fiction author.Awards and grants include TCG's National Theatre Artists Residency Program, AT&amp;T Firststage award, three Distinguished Play Awards and the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup from AATE, NY Foundation for the Arts, and Irish Arts Council Commissioning Grant (with Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, Ireland).Brooks' Lies and Deceptions Quartet for young adults includes The Wrestling Season, commissioned by The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO, featured at The Kennedy Center's One Theatre World, printed in the Playscript Series, November 2000, American Theatre magazine, and winner of "Best of" awards in Seattle, Kansas City and Dallas.Additional award-winning plays include Deadly Weapons, The Tangled Web, Everyday Heroes.Selkie, Devon's Hurt, The Match Girl's Gift, Franklin's Apprentice, The Lost Ones and Brave No World, commissioned and premiered at The Kennedy Center in 2006.Brooks has worked extensively in Ireland and has been Professor and Playwright in Residence at New York University. She has served as playwright in residence for the HYPE Institute at the ALLEY Theatre in Houston and has been guest lecturer at University of Missouri Kansas City (2005), The University of Texas at Austin (2006), and as Artist in Residence at Arizona State University in 2007-08. Her article, "Put A Little Boal in Your Theatre: A New Model for Talkbacks" appeared in American Theatre magazine and she was a featured artist at the 2007 TCG National Conference at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.Brooks' book for young adults, Selkie Girl, is available in fine bookstores from Knopf—in hardcover and also as an ebook! ...more