Laura Maria Censabella’s play Beyond Words (Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Science Foundation Commission, 2023 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist) about the life and work of maverick scientist Dr. Irene Pepperberg of Alex & Me fame will be produced by Central Square Theater in March 2024. Her play Paradise (IRNE Award Best New Play, Elliott Norton Nomination Outstanding New Script, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Science Foundation Commission) made its sold-out U.S. west coast premiere in L.A. at The Odyssey Theatre (Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, producers) and world premiered at Underground Railway/Central Square Theater in Cambridge as part of CST's Catalyst Collaborative@MIT science/theater partnership. She then wrote the screenplay for Vicangelo Films and JuVee Productions, and an audio version of the play opened LATW’s 2021-22 season. Ms. Censabella is the recipient of the $10,000 Saroyan/Paul Human Rights Playwriting Prize for her play Carla Cooks The War, three grants in Playwriting and Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. Other plays and musicals have been developed or produced at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, WP Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Stage, the New Harmony Project, Gulfshore Playhouse, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, The Playwright’s Laboratory, The Working Theatre, Luna Stage, Passage Theatre, and Urban Stages, among others. She directs the Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit and teaches at the New School for Drama where she received the Distinguished University Wide Teaching Award. She is a graduate of Yale College where she studied with Wole Soyinka, Nikos Psacharopoulos, Michael Roemer, Anthony Davis and Henry Louis Gates, and is a proud member of Honor Roll! an action and advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40. Hedgebrook alumna 2023.
Contact: Literary Agent Elaine Devlin at Elaine@EDevlinlit.com
https://newplayexchange.org/users/8866/laura-maria-censabella
See the trailer for her short film Last Call here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iddWgx4EwT0
Listen to her interview for the HerStory of Hollywood Podcast here: http://theotherfiftypercent.com/blog/tag/daytime