LAURA EASON

LAURA EASON is an award-winning playwright and an Emmy-nominated producer and screenwriter.

She is currently executive producer and showrunner of the Starz drama series Three Women. Based on the blockbuster nonfiction bestseller, the show stars Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy.

Her other writing and producing credits for TV include the Showtime drama The Loudest Voice (WGA nomination; Golden Globe nomination, limited series) and four seasons of Netflix’s five-time Emmy-nominated best drama series House of Cards (Emmy and WGA nominations, drama series.) Laura’s feature film debut, Here and Now, produced by and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival (then titled Blue Night) and is available on demand. Past and present TV development includes pilot scripts for Amazon, Apple, BBC, Fox 21, Fox Network, Peacock and Starz. She is currently writing a feature film for Rachel Brosnahan’s Scrap Paper Pictures.

An award-winning playwright, her more than twenty produced original plays include the original SEX WITH STRANGERS which began at Steppenwolf in Chicago before playing Second Stage in NYC (NYT Critic’s pick.) It was one of the most produced plays in the U.S. for several years with international productions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Taiwan and Turkey. Laura’s celebrated adaptation of Jules Verne’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS began under her direction at Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago (seven Jeff Award nominations including Best Production and Best Adaptation) and went onto subsequent productions in London and eighteen other UK cities before transferring to the New Victory Theatre in NYC (NYT Critic’s pick.)

Laura is a long-time Ensemble Member of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, recipient of the 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and served as the company’s Artistic Director for six years. She is a graduate of the Performance Studies Department of Northwestern University and an alumna of WP’s Playwrights Lab. Originally from Chicago, Laura lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.