Laura Harrington's award winning plays, musicals, operas, and radio plays have been widely produced in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. Harrington is a two time winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in playwriting and a two time winner of the Clauder Competition for best new play in New England for Mercy and Hallowed Ground.

Much of her work is inspired by her fascination with history and her commitment to work that explores the human cost of war, from the Civil War (Hallowed Ground) to WWI (The Book of Hours) and WWII (Fifteen Minutes at Midway). She has indulged in a lifelong love affair with all things French, and, in particular, French history, from Martin Guerre to Joan of Arc, to her most recent work about Napoleon in exile, N Bonaparte.

She is currently writing a new opera: Alma Mahler, with the composer Deborah Drattell, and a series of choral works, with composer Roger Ames. Ms. Harrington teaches playwriting at M.I.T and is a frequent guest artist at Tufts, Harvard (where she was a visiting Briggs Copeland Lecturer), Wellesley, University of Iowa, and other campuses.

Interview with Anne Driscoll
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine Article

AWARDS:
2008 Kleban Award for Most Promising Librettist in American Musical Theatre, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Clauder Competition, Bunting Institute Fellowship, Whiting Foundation Grant-in-Aid, Joseph Kesselring Award for Drama, New England Emmy, Quebec Cinemateque Award

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Photo: Pam Berry

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Email: Laura Harrington
Download: 2008 Resumé