About

Lauren Gorski has a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, with an emphasis in Stage & Screen. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in apt, Badlands, Jersey Devil Press, Underground Voices, and elsewhere.​

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Her plays have been performed at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, PlayGround (including Best of Festival), PianoFight’s ShortLived series, NYC’s Spark, and Atlantic Theater Company’s NYU2 One Act Play Festival, one of the country’s top training grounds for actors. She is a two-time playwright-in-residence with PlayGround, a national incubator for new playwrights, and has received multiple Audience Choice Awards for her short plays. In 2023, she was a finalist for Red Bull Theater’s Short Play Festival in New York, and her full-length play The Bramford received its premiere presentation in San Francisco, where it was nominated for the Rella Lossy Award.​​​​​​

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Beyond her work as a writer, Lauren serves on the Editorial Board of Exposition Review, an award-winning multi-genre literary journal, where she has held roles as Stage & Screen Editor, Co-Editor-in-Chief, and Comics & Film Editor. She also serves on the National Board of Directors for Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE), a mentorship program that pairs college women with at-risk middle school girls.