Laura Schellhardt’s original works include THE COMPARABLES, UPRIGHT GRAND, AIR GUITAR HIGH, AUCTIONING THE AINSLEYS, THE K OF D, COURTING VAMPIRES, and SHAPESHIFTER.  Adaptations include THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH and THE OUTFIT. She is also the author of Screenwriting for Dummies.   Laura is a recipient of the TCG National Playwriting Residency, the Jerome Fellowship, ACT’s New Play Award, and a Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship.  She has participated in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, the SoHo Rep. Writer/Director Lab, the Women Playwrights Festival at SRT, the Kennedy Center New Voices/ New Vision, The Bonderman Symposium, and the O’Neill National Playwright’s Festival.   Laura received her MFA in playwriting from Brown University.  She currently heads the undergraduate playwriting program at Northwestern University.