Lauren Holmes

Lauren is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Dedham, Massachusetts. She recently adapted the novel The Employees by Olga Ravn with director Jaclyn Biskup for a production at Theaterlab. Her work has been developed at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and The Brick’s Quick + Dirty. She was a recipient of a 2024 Woodward Residency. She’s been a finalist for the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, and a semifinalist for the Playwrights Realm, The Civilians R&D Lab, The Next Forever Residency, and the WP Lab. Before playwriting, she worked on political campaigns, in corporate America, and for the UN in Italy and New York. Her plays are dark, funny, and usually about class, work, and families of happenstance. BA: Harvard College, MA in economics: Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, MFA: Hunter College. laurenholm.es