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Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: The House Party after August Strindberg's Miss Julie (Chichester Festival Theatre / Headlong / Frantic Assembly, 2024); Metamorphoses, co-written with Sami Ibrahim and Sabrina Mahfouz, after Ovid (Shakespeare's Globe, 2021); Chaos (National Theatre Connections); The Blue Road (Dundee Rep, Derby Theatre, Royal & Derngate and Theatre Royal Plymouth youth companies); Joanne (Clean Break & Soho Theatre); Bird (Root Theatre and Echo); Blister (Paines Pough/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Open Heart Surgery (Theatre Uncut); Come to Where I’m From (Paines Plough); Some Machine (Paines Plough/Rose Bruford); The Island (Nottingham Playhouse/Det Norske Oslo); Us Like Gods (Hampstead, Heat and Light); Gypsy Girl (Paines Plough Later at Soho) and Wasteland (New Perspectives/Derby Theatre; shortlisted for the Brian Way Award).

Radio plays include My Boy (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play; Bronze SONY Award for best radio drama) and Lucy Island (BBC Radio 3).

Her screen work includes Rough Skin (Touchpaper/Channel 4; shortlisted for Best British Short at British Independent Film Awards and Raindance Film Festival). She has also written two episodes of Glue (E4/Eleven Films), and has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4, Manchester Royal Exchange, and jointly by Clean Break and Birmingham Rep. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow 2013, and a Yaddo Fellow 2014.

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Bird and other monologues for young women

Bird and other monologues for young women

By Laura Lomas

Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.

Bird

Bird

By Laura Lomas

A cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.

Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women
    Gypsy Girl

    Gypsy Girl

    By Laura Lomas

    A monologue first performed by Laura Lomas at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 October 2009 as part of Paines Plough's LATER programme.

    Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women
      Where I'm From

      Where I'm From

      By Laura Lomas

      A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.

      Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women
        Joanne

        Joanne

        By Deborah Bruce, Theresa Ikoko, Laura Lomas, Chinonyerem Odimba and Ursula Rani Sarma

        Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.

        Chaos

        Chaos

        By Laura Lomas

        A symphony of characters searching for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

        Metamorphoses

        Metamorphoses

        By Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Ovid

        An entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.

        The House Party

        The House Party

        By Laura Lomas Original author August Strindberg

        A new spin on August Strindberg's play Miss Julie, premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2024 in a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre, Headlong and Frantic Assembly.

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        Blister

        Blister

        By Laura Lomas

        A tense relationship drama which examines how the effects of one moment can ripple through a galaxy of lives. In the Multiplay Drama series.