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Laurie Brooks

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Playwright | Author

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Laurie Brooks

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Playwright | Author

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Finding Your Authentic Voice

Captivating Readers

Discover the Playwright You Want to Be

Captivating Readers

“Many of the basic tools – fully realized characters, careful plot development, plenty of conflict and action, contradiction and the unexpected, forward motion and tension – are as necessary for the playwright as they are for authors of narrative fiction."

Anything Can Happen

Discover the Playwright You Want to Be

Captivating Readers

"But a playwright must understand what theatre does best, which is asking the audience to use its imagination, suspending their disbelief in order to lose themselves in the action of the play. I am not as interested in naturalistic theatre as I am in creative use of the theatre space, a place where anything can happen.”

Discover the Playwright You Want to Be

Discover the Playwright You Want to Be

Discover the Playwright You Want to Be

“People often ask me why I write for young adults. I suppose there’s a part of me that never quite grew up. I am drawn to the struggles young adults face - searching to find their authentic selves, what they will believe in and what they will leave behind. For many playwrights, including me, discovering  ourselves and what we care about most is a lifelong challenge.” 

Published Works

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

Paperback cover of Selkie Girl.

He lays his fingers alongside mine and looks at me, recognition playing on his face. 

Yes, I am alive, I tell him with my eyes, and by the look of him, I can tell he knows. 

I am not drowned. I am Elin Jean in the body of a seal.

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The Wrestling Season

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

production photo of Th Wrestling Season

You think you've got me pegged, pinned.

You think you know me, but you don't. 

How can you know me?

I'm not even sure I know myself. 

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Selkie: Between Land and Sea

Selkie Girl - Young Adult Novel

Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

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Listen, listen to the sea. 

There is a land far beneath. 

Awaken, awaken from your sleep 

to the mysteries down below. 


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Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

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"We did invite the Devil into our midst 

and he will take us down to hell!"

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Franklin's Apprentice

Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

Franklin's Apprentice

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"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you must. 

I dare you, lightning, strike! I am not afraid!"

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The Secret of Courage

Afflicted: Daughters of Salem

Franklin's Apprentice

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"Some things can't be proved. You just believe them. No matter what happens now, I know what I have to do." 

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Triangle

Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

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I am a bird. I soar above the Asch Building and in the clean air I can see the whole city stretched out below me. No one expects anything from me. No one is angry at me. No one tells me what to do. I am safe. I am free. 

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Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

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You see somethin' wrong with the world and there's only one question you gotta ask yourself: What are you gonna do about it?

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A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

Brave No World: Community, Identity, Stand up Comedy

A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

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As Christmas morning approaches, Laura  faces a decision: Will she choose what is best for the family or will she find a way to stay with Ma, Pa, Mary and Carrie?

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Atypical Boy

Everyday Heroes

A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

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I was shunned too, you know."It felt worse than a thousand hot pokers in my eyes. I did everything I could to get away from the pain of it. I made myself into a piece of stone but the stone melted and I couldn't stop crying. 

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Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes

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"People pass by each other every day. Somebody gets in an accident, there's danger, everyone just stands there staring at it, like its on TV and that's a tragedy." 

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Searchers

Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes

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Am I unique

Or some carbon copy? 

How can I even know? 

Will somebody please show me 

who I am?

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Deadly Weapons

The Tangled Web

The Tangled Web

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"Listen to me. You have to look out for yourself in this world. 'Cause nobody's gonna do it for you. You have to be smart. 

Know what to expect." 

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The Tangled Web

The Tangled Web

The Tangled Web

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What do you want? Your heart's desire. Your hottest fire. Wanna conspire? If you were set free to do what you please. Who would you be? 

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All of Us

The Tangled Web

Devon's Hurt

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These stories navigate the  world of LGBTQ   high school students as they reveal their inner lives and ask all of us to stand up for their rights. 

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Devon's Hurt

The Match Girl's Gift

Devon's Hurt

Devon'S Hurt poster.

Eight year old Devon has a fight with his best friend, Stephanie who says, "I hate you." Devon is devastated, so sad that his Hurt, a funny little fellow in an oversized coat arrives and will not go away.  

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The Lost Ones

The Match Girl's Gift

The Match Girl's Gift

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Set in a world of conflict, two feral children play only at what they know - war. They construct a meaningful world of their own based only on their scant memories of another time and a battered copy of Peter Pan, until they are forced to face the outside world. 

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The Match Girl's Gift

The Match Girl's Gift

The Match Girl's Gift

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"Listen, Dearheart. It is time for you to have a different kind of dream. Strong dreams. Dreams of the future. Waking dreams that show you what your future might be."

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