Lavinia Roberts is a published and award-winning playwright, puppet designer, and educator.  She has over 40 plays for young people published with Applause Books, Big Dog Plays, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer Publishing, Plays; The Drama Magazine for Young People, Pioneer Drama, Smith and Kraus, and Standard Publishing.  Her book, A Little Drama; Playful Activities for Young Children is published with Redleaf Press.  Her work for young people has been seen in all 50 states and in South Africa and the United Kingdom.  

Her play Counting Skunks won the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award at the Castillo Theatre in New York City.  Her play Eaten Voices won $5000 and best production in festival at the Thespis Theatre Festival in New York City.  Eaten Voices went on to productions with The New Alchemists in Seattle, the Bread and Roses Theatre in London, and with Gadfly Productions in Minneapolis.   She was a member of the Women’s Writers Lab at the New Perspective Theatre in New York City.  

Her work has been featured in New York City at  HERE Arts Center, Galapagos Art Space, The Metropolitan Playhouse, The Wild Project, in the New York Fringe Festival, and other spaces.   She has directed her work in NYC at The Secret Theatre, Dixon Place, The Brick, The Bushwick Starr, the Sheen Center, and The Tank.

Lavinia also creates masks and puppets for film and theatre.  Her work has been shown in New York City at  Frontrunner Gallery, The Brooklyn Fireproof, Urban Glass, on Governors Island, and other spaces.  She has had artist residencies in New York City at The Center for Book Arts, Urban Glass, and with The Art Students League. 

She has a MA in Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities from New York University and BFA in Fine Art from the University of Kansas.