Playwright

 

 

Lavinia Roberts is an activist, puppeteer, performing artist, and playwright. She has published over a dozen plays and has been produced across the country. Her work has been produced with the Subversive Theatre Collective, in Buffalo, NY, the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York City, the Stone Soup Theatre in Seattle, Washington, the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, in Bloomington, Indiana and others. Her full length play, Counting Skunks, won the 2011 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award at the Castillo Theatre in New York City. She is a member of the 2012 Women’s Work Lab at the New Perspective Theatre. Her work will be featured this fall in NYC with the Secret Theatre, Dixon Place, in the Thespis Theatre Festival (http://eatenvoices.blogspot.com/), the John Chatterton's Short Play Lab, and with the Sparrowtree Theatre Company.  This fall, her work will also be featured in festivals with Forearmed Productions in Philidelphia and The Disruptables in D.C.