SIDELIGHTS: Laura Cahill's experiences growing up in northern New Jersey have been translated into comic plays about twenty-something singles trying to wrench meaning from mundane lives. WORK IN PROGRESS: Three scripts for Miramax Films. Author of pilot script for Warner Brothers Network. Work represented in anthologies, including Marathon 1996, Smith & Kraus, 1996 3 by E.S.T.: Three One-Act Plays Presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dramatists Play Service (New York, NY), 1997 and Best Short Plays of 1999, Applause, 2000. Mercy (two-act play produced Off-Broadway at Vineyard Theater, 1998), Dramatists Play Service (New York, NY), 2000.Īlso author of the plays Home and Jersey Girls Go to the Park.
Hysterical Blindness (two-act play first produced Off-Off Broadway at Naked Angels, 1993), Dramatists Play Service ( New York, NY), 2000, adapted for film by Cahill, Home Box Office (HBO), 2002.
Plays have been produced at Vineyard Theater, New Harmony Project, Naked Angels, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. ADDRESSES: Offıce-c/o Screenwriter Correspondence, Miramax Films, 375 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10013.ĬAREER: Playwright and screen and television writer, 1993.
