LAURA PITTENGER is a NYC-based novelist, playwright and director, specializing in dark comedies which challenge the body, heart and soul. Her plays have been published by YouthPLAYS (“Pride and Prejudice Abridged”) and Smith & Kraus (“The Gospel of Huxley” in 105 Ten-Minute Plays for Study and Performance). Her work, including a play about Dorothy Day, has been presented at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, where she was a 2019 Playwriting Fellow, as well as at FringeNYC, Project Y, The Playwrights’ Center, The Tank, and KCACTF, among others. Laura was commissioned to write an Ecclesiastes-inspired surrealist play for Spark and Echo Arts and was featured in America Magazine. She is the treasurer of the Catholic Artist Connection, a non-profit organization serving Catholic artists in the New York City metropolitan area, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She is a graduate of Ball State University. Her fiction work is represented by Aimee Ashcraft at Brower Literary. www.laurapittenger.com