Lauren Taslitz is a librettist, lyricist, producer, and teaching artist determined to bring the voice of mature womanhood to musical theatre. She has written book and lyrics for six full-length musicals. Lauren is the 2020 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted MacDowell Fellow, was nominated by The Musical Theater Factory for the DGF Benjamin Indick Award for Outstanding Librettist or Lyricist, and has been a finalist or semi-finalist for a bunch of things she hasn’t gotten. (A list of productions, residencies, commissions and things she has gotten can be found on her website, www.laurentaslitz.com.) Lauren is a member of Maestra, MTF’s Women’s Roundtable, and The Dramatist Guild. She has a B.S. from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Certificate of Completion from The Second City Writing Program, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU-Tisch (2017).