GINGER LAZARUS is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. She collaborated with Central Square Theater’s Youth Underground to create Here and There, a play about immigration, currently on tour. Other productions include The Housekeeper with Fresh Ink Theatre, Burning with Resonance Ensemble (NY) and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (2013 Boston My Theatre Award for Best New Work), The Embryos with Fresh Ink, A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood presented by Spiced Wine Productions, and Matter Familias with Boston Playwrights’ (IRNE nomination for Best New Play). Her plays have been produced locally by Another Country Productions, Centastage, Queer Soup, Playwrights’ Platform, Theatre@First, and the Boston Theater Marathon, and have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater’s 24/7 Festival, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival, Women’s Theatre Project’s Naked Women Fully Clothed, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab. Two of her short plays also appeared at the Warehouse Theatre and Canal Café Theatre in London. She served as a script consultant for Debra Granik’s highly praised feature, Leave No Trace; other screenwriting credits include two award-winning shorts for the Boston 48 Hour Film Festival and Mary, a film based on her stage play. Ginger teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, StageSource, and Rhombus playwrights’ group.