LM Feldman

Feldman graduated from the Cornell University Department of Performing & Media Arts in 2001.^[2] She was assigned a writing assignment as part of an acting class. The teacher recommended that she take a playwriting class, which led to Feldman discovering a love for playwriting.^[1] She completed her MFA in Playwriting at the Yale University School of Drama.

In 2016, Feldman taught playwriting for PlayPenn.^[3]

Feldman read Glynis Ridley’s The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, and began writing Thrive, or What You Will [an epic] about the life of Jeanne Baret and inspired by Twelfth Night, Or What You Will.^[1] Thrive was the winner of the American Shakespeare Centre's Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries award in 2020 as well as a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Drama^[4] and an honorable mention on The Kilroys' List in 2019.^[5]

Feldman was named a 2023-25 Venturous Playwright Fellow, alongside Harmon dot aut and Jessica Huang, by The Playwrights’ Center and Venturous Theater Fund.^[6]

Full-length plays

• The Egg-Layers (2012)^[7]
• Grace, or the Art of Climbing (2013)^[8]
• a People [a mosaic play] (2018)^[9][10]
• Tropical Secrets, or All the Flutes in the Sea, adapted from the book Tropical Secrets by Margarita Engle (2021)
• S P A C E
• Scribe, or The Sisters Milton, Or Elegy for the Unwritten (formerly Amanuensis^[11])
• Another Kind of Silence
• Thrive, or What You Will [an epic] (2022)
• hand foot hand

Devised works

• The Life and Works of JC as Told by the Heretics (formerly The Apocryphal Project) – devised with Michael Walkup, Brian Hastert, Carter Gill, and Alex Knox (2007)
• Now/Not Now {a one-woman play with trapeze} – devised with Diana Y Greiner (2011)
• Lady M – devised with director Adrienne Mackey (2011)
• And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey – devised with Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Nick Choksi, and the ensemble (2014)
• Gumshoe (2017)
• War of the Worlds: Philadelphia – devised with Swim Pony and created in collaboration with the Drexel Entrepreneurial Game Studio (2017)