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The recipient of a National Theatre Artist Residency Program grant (NTARP) administered by Theatre Communications Group, funded by Pew Charitable Trusts, Laurie Brooks was 2004-05 playwright in residence at The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. Professor and playwright in residence at New York University's Program in Educational Theatre from 1997 to 2006, Brooks is a site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts and Pew Charitable Trusts, a board member of ASSITEJ/USA, and a member of The Dramatists Guild. Her Lies and Deceptions Quartet for young adults includes The Wrestling Season, featured at New Visions 2000: One Theatre World at The Kennedy Center and printed in American Theatre, November 2000. The Quartet also includes Deadly Weapons, commissioned and devised with Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, Ireland, 1998, nominated for a Leon Rabin Award for best new play in Dallas 2002; The Tangled Web, Irish version commissioned and devised with Graffiti Theatre Company, 2000, American version commissioned by The Coterie, 2002, AT&T Firststage Award from Theatre Communications Group and Everyday Heroes, commissioned and premiered by The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration and Salt Lake City in conjunction with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Additional award-winning plays include Devon's Hurt; The Match Girl's Gift, commissioned by Nashville Children's Theatre; Franklin's Apprentice, commissioned by Stage One: Louisville Children's Theatre, Equity premiere at Arden Theatre Company; Between Land and Sea: A Selkie Myth and A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas, both co-commissioned by The Coterie and Nashville Children's Theatre. Brooks has worked with young playwright programs as workshop leader and dramaturg at the Alley Theatre in Houston and The Coterie and has dramaturged new plays at the Bonderman Symposium at Indiana Repertory Theatre and New Visions/New Voices at The Kennedy Center. Her play, The 12:07, was developed at Arden Theatre Company in 2004. Brooks received a 2004 Irish Arts Council commissioning grant with Graffiti Theatre Company for her play, The Lost Ones. Brooks' plays have received two AATE Distinguished Play Awards and the 2003 Charlotte Chorpenning Cup for a distinguished body of work for young people. Her play, Brave No World: Community. Identity. Stand-up Comedy was commissioned for The Kennedy Center's inaugural Family Theatre season, 2006. Her article, "Put a Little Boal in Your Theatre: A New Model for Talkbacks" appeared in the December 2006 issue of American Theatre. In the spring of '06, she was in residence at the University of Texas at Austin.
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