About
Laura J. Axelrod is a writer whose work spans theater, essays, historical fiction, and nonfiction, with a particular focus on the lives of women during the American Century.
Her historical fiction delves into family sagas that examine women’s rights and societal expectations from the early 1960s to the present. Her nonfiction work includes Project 1968, a blog doc-novel that explores the lives of three young women during that tumultuous year. The project, rooted in a year of intensive research at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, was discussed in Educause Review as an “Emergence of a New Genre.”
As a journalist, her essays and book reviews on arts and politics have appeared in publications such as The Birmingham News and The Seattle Times. Her early work as a theater blogger was cited by Megan Vaughan in the book, "Theatre Blogging: The Emergence of a Critical Culture," as a leading voice in the field. She also serves as Associate Curator and Contributor at The Clyde Fitch Report.
Her playwriting has been performed at the Edinburg Fringe Festival, as well as in New York and San Francisco. She also wrote, directed, and acted in the documentary film, “Becoming Colonel Cullmann,” which was screened at Birmingham’s Sidewalk Film Festival and is available on DVD and YouTube.
Laura is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, MFA in Dramatic Writing), where she was honored with the John L. Golden Award for Playwright with Most Potential and the Rod Marriott Senior Playwriting Award. She is a member of The Authors Guild, the Dramatists Guild, and the National Book Critics Circle. When not immersed in historical archives or crafting stories, she pursues her love of Mid-Century Modern art, design, and architecture.