Laura Schellhardt received her MFA in playwriting from Brown University under the direction of Paula Vogel. Her plays have been produced in New York (SPF, The Hangar), Washington, DC (The Kennedy Center), Seattle (ACT, Seattle Repertory Theatre), Chicago (Northlight Theatre, Citadel Theatre, New Leaf Theatre, Serendipity Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop), Providence (Trinity Repertory Company, Brown University), Minneapolis (Theatre Limina), North Carolina (Center for Performing Arts), and Provincetown, Massachusetts (Provincetown Theatre Company, Provincetown Rep). Original works include The K of D, The Chair, Counting Vampires, Shapeshifter, The Outfit (Jeff Award Nominee), Inheritance, Je Ne Sais Quoi, and Searching for Lochness. Adaptations include The Phantom Tollbooth, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, and Creole Folktales. She is a 2007-08 Jerome Playwriting Fellow, a recipient of the New Play Award from ACT in Seattle, a 2005 Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellow; she also participated in the 2006 SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. The K of D was workshopped as part of the 2006 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference and received its world premiere at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2008. Her play, The Chair, will receive a workshop at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence as part of the 2007-8 TCG Playwriting Residency. She is also the author of “Screenwriting for Dummies.” Laura currently teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, and is the director of Northlight Theatre’s education academy.