Laura Maria Censabella Laura Maria Censabella is an American playwright and screenwriter She has been awarded three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts two in playwriting for Abandoned in Queens and Three Italian Women and The Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting for her original screenplay Truly Mary Her short play Posing was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Actual Footage won the Tennessee Chapbook Prize for Drama Both plays are published in Poems Plays She has written the short film adaptation Physics for HBO s Women Breaking the Rules series and she has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on ATWT Censabella s half hour independent film Last Call directed by Robert Bailey has been an official selection in festivals throughout the world including the Avignon Film Festival the Other Venice Film Festival the Hermosa Shorts Film Festival the Sedona International Film Festival Anthology Film Archives and the Breckenridge Film Festival where it won the Best Short Drama award Censabella s teaching experience includes the New School for Drama the Actors Studio Drama School where she developed the playwriting program with Romulus Linney Columbia University s School of the Arts Columbia College s Undergraduate Writing Program City University s MFA Writing Program The Sewanee Writers Conference and Summer Literary Seminars She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America East and graduated from Yale University External Links MTSU IMDB LMC