L M Feldman
L M Feldman is a queer, GNC, feminist playwright who writes theatrically adventurous, physically evocative, intimate, inquisitive, ensemble-driven plays. Plays that are dynamic, honest, brave, and the smallest bit impossible. Plays that transcend into an experience.
So far, her body of work includes S P A C E ~ THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL [AN EPIC] ~ ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE ~ SCRIBE, OR THE SISTERS MILTON, OR ELEGY FOR THE UNWRITTEN ~ THE EGG-LAYERS ~ GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING ~ A PEOPLE [A MOSAIC PLAY] ~ TROPICAL SECRETS, OR ALL THE FLUTES IN THE SEA ~ and 7 full-length ensemble-devised works.
L has been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Venturous Fellowship, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Stavis Playwright Award, New York Innovative Theatre Award, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, and twice for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. And she’s ongoingly grateful to have been a fellow at MacDowell, the Playwrights Realm, and the Dramatists Guild, and a core writer with InterAct Theatre, Orbiter 3, and (currently) The Playwrights’ Center.
An alum of the Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts, L is also a contemporary circus artist. She has performed duo trapeze at festivals around the world, and has dramaturged works of circus-theater for ensembles around the country. She loves theater that moves, and circus that tells stories.
L has lived in seven cities and is now based in Philadelphia, where she teaches both playwriting and circus, writes and devises plays, and trains handstands.