Praise for Laurie’s playwriting:
‘Ogden’s writing makes you walk in the characters shoes…I was tying the laces of empathy as I went.’ - ***** Fem Anthem.
‘A new writing triumph’ - A Younger Theatre
Top 5 Feminist Picks of the Fringe - ****, Norwich Radical
Laurie was shortlisted for the inaugral Women in Theatre Lab 2024. She was selected as a North Wall Oxford Playwright 2022 with her play in development, Forecast. She is on attachment at Traverse Theatre Edinburgh for 2021/22, and her play Yes Chef underwent R&D supported by Arts Council England, Unity Theatre, Liverpool, & Roundhouse, Camden. Her newest play Different Owners at Sunrise received a fully captioned work-in-progress sharing, incorporating moments of BSL and Visual Vernacular, at The Roundhouse in October 2021, supported by Zoo Co & Grace Dickson Productions. She was recently commissioned to write an eight hander, Things I Shouldn’t Carry', in co-creation with Croydon teenagers for Zoo Co Theatre’s Young Company.
Laurie was selected for the Box of Tricks ‘Pen Pals’ Writers scheme 2021/22, and was shortlisted for the Box of Tricks/Sky Arts SCREEN/PLAY award. She was selected by Tim Crouch as a Jerwood/Arvon Playwright 2017/18, where a short segment of her play No One Thing was published in the anthology ‘Midnight Listening’. Laurie was a 24:7 Young Playwright (Manchester) where she wrote her first short play Out the Jar which received a rehearsed reading at Three Minute Theatre. She was also a Roundhouse Resident Artist 2019-2021.
Laurie is working on a new play set on the North-West coastline for which she was shortlisted for the Box of Tricks & Sky Arts SCREEN/PLAY Award 2020/2021. Her play’s Yes Chef and Different Owners at Sunrise are seeking further development opportunities. More info on previous shows, including reviews, below.
YES CHEF
YES CHEF began as part of Laurie’s residency at The Roundhouse. A work in progress was scheduled for The Last Word Festival 2020, postponed due to the pandemic. An early draft was a finalist for the Just Some Theatre Award 2020, and it was selected for the NSDF x Spotlight scheme 2021 for a zoom reading. It received R&D at Unity Theatre Liverpool and Roundhouse in 2021, and was selected for Traverse Theatre’s ‘First Stages’ scheme.
NSDF x Spotlight Director - Hetty Hodgson
Just Some Theatre Director - Rebecca Hill
Roundhouse/Unity Director - Hetty Hodgson
Colder Water
A 45 minute 4 hander about queer relationships, consent, and tiny irritable bladders.
***** West End Wilma
‘Ogden’s writing makes you walk in the characters shoes…I was tying the laces of empathy as I went.’ ***** Fem Anthem.
Sell out short run at Theatre N16 in 2017.
Director - Celine Fortenbacher-Poplowska
TWIX
Set in Liverpool, TWIX follows two lads from different corners of the city. In interweaving stories, Jamie and Henry struggle to take hold of their futures.
**** Broadway Baby
**** West End Wilma
‘A new writing triumph’ A Younger Theatre
Sell out short run at Canal Cafe Camden, short run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sell out short run at Theatre N16.
Director - Molly Evans & Cara Withers
Side Orders
Amina wants to be a stand up comedian. Lily doesn’t know what she wants to be, but she’s rethinking her Tinder profile settings and trying to be PC. A chance meeting in a chipshop with dazzling Bobbi makes them the focus of his new artwork, asking ‘what does it mean to be lonely?’ A question that shadows them over tea, a suspicion of runny garlic sauce and a struggle to be seen.
**** Lexical Lunacy
**** Norwich Radical (Top 5 feminist picks of the Edinburgh Fringe)
Director - Grace Lyons Hudson
STAIRCASES
"STAIRCASES" is a piece of collaborative new writing from Antonym Theatre. It explores 'L'esprit de l'escalier', or the conversations you wish you could have had; the retorts you've said it your head and weren't brave enough to vocalise. From library trysts to invasive psychiatrists, the text weaves between internal monologue and external conversations as five actors bring to life a myriad of characters trying to find a voice in scenarios ranging from the comically absurd to the tragically heartbreaking.
**** Lexical Lunacy
**** Smiths
Scenes written by Gabriel Jones, Caolan Blaney, Laurie Ogden and Maeve Tierney.
Director - Charlotte Winstone.
Dramaturgy/Script editing - Laurie Ogden.
MILK TEETH
Sold out show at Roundhouse Last Word Festival 2016.
Spare The Poets present their debut show Milk Teeth, digging memories from playground sandpits, prising them from sticky night-club floors, and putting them under a microscope, asking: When did we stop playing? Will these acne scars ever fade? And whatever happened to our milk teeth?
Directed by Gabriel Jones and Andrea Spisto
Collaboratively written by the collective ‘Spare the Poets’ (former Roundhouse Poetry Collective).
Script editing by Phoebe Wagner and Laurie Ogden.
Selected for further development at Battersea Arts Centre.
Photo promo for Milk Teeth - Spare the Poets Collective - Roundhouse Last Work Festival