Ginger Lazarus

Playwright
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Ginger Lazarus is a Boston-based playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. She is currently developing a play about the women’s suffrage movement in collaboration with the National Parks Service and Plays in Place, and has written works for the education programs of the Lyric Stage Company and Central Square Theater. Other productions include The Housekeeper with Fresh Ink Theatre, Burning with Resonance Ensemble (NY) and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (2013 Boston My Theatre Award for Best New Work), The Embryos with Fresh Ink, A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood presented by Spiced Wine Productions, and Matter Familias with Boston Playwrights’ (IRNE nomination for Best New Play). Her plays have been produced in Boston by Another Country Productions, Centastage, Queer Soup, Playwrights’ Platform, Theatre@First, and the Boston Theater Marathon, and have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater’s 24/7 Festival, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival, Women’s Theatre Project’s Naked Women Fully Clothed, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab. Two of her short plays also appeared at the Warehouse Theatre and Canal Café Theatre in London. She served as a script consultant for Debra Granik’s highly praised feature, Leave No Trace; other screenwriting credits include two award-winning shorts for the Boston 48 Hour Film Festival and Mary, a film based on her stage play. Ginger holds a master’s degree in playwriting from Boston University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston.