L M Feldman
L M Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright who writes theatrically audacious, physically kinetic, ensemble-driven plays that are both epic & intimate. Plays that shift the prism, that quest & grapple. Plays about the women and queers in the shadows & footnotes & margins of history. Plays wrestling with voice & agency, opportunity & access, history & its wake. Plays that explode space & time & dramaturgical form. Plays that seek to create a truly COMMUNAL & TRANSCENDENT experience – for those both onstage and off. L’s work includes: S P A C E (Central Square Theater); HAND FOOT HAND (Playwrights Realm); LIMBER (Emerson Stage); THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL (American Shakespeare Center); ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (City Theater Company, Curious Theatre, The Vortex); SCRIBE, OR THE SISTERS MILTON, OR ELEGY FOR THE UNWRITTEN (Playwrights’ Center); THE EGG-LAYERS (New Georges/Barnard College); GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING (Denver Center); A PEOPLE (Orbiter 3); and TROPICAL SECRETS, OR ALL THE FLUTES IN THE SEA (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte). A finalist for the FEWW Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama, L’s work has also been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Barrie & Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, among others. They couldn’t be more grateful for the validation each of these has offered. L is also ongoingly thankful to have been a fellow at MacDowell, the Playwrights Realm, New Georges, InterAct Theatre, and the Dramatists Guild; a winner of Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries; an alum of Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts; and part of the 2022-2023 Artistic Caucus. And they are over the goshdarn moon to be a Venturous Playwright Fellow through the Playwrights’ Center. As a circus artist, L performed duo trapeze at festivals around the world. They continue to work as an Artistic Coach/Dramaturg for circus artists around the country. L has lived in seven cities and is based in Philadelphia, where they write, collaborate, advocate, and teach.