Laura Ferri is a freelance performing artist whose work as an actor, playwright, and director has been seen in theaters across the country. She has worked extensively with the blind and low vision community as an audio describer, advocate and artist. For Anything is Possible Theatre, she co-wrote and directed their productions of Flying Blind!—both the audio play as well as the live theatre reiteration—about the joys and challenges of life in the blind/low vision community, featuring a cast of mostly blind and visually impaired actors. This production was awarded the One World Award in 2022 by the Washington Council of the Blind.

As a founding member of Book-It Repertory Theatre, she has adapted and directed multiple novels for their mainstage and touring programs. Her direction of Prairie Nocturne won a Seattle Times Footlight Award for Best Production in 2012, as did her adaptation for A Tale for the Time Being, which won for Best Production in 2016.

Specializing in transforming primary source documents into performing pieces, her work has been commissioned by both the Seattle and Tacoma Arts Museums, Seattle Arts and Lectures, the Women’s University Club, the JT News, and the O.S.P.I. where she was awarded a Kip Tokuda grant to write and direct Friends Across the Wires, an original play about the American Incarceration of the Japanese during WWII. For Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre, she wrote and directed the Monsters, Magic and Mysticism and Somewhere Very Far Away audio plays, the live theatre production of The Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust as well as their most recent production, Surviving Survival. She was recently awarded a US/UK Fulbright in Creative Writing and spent the first half of 2022 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, researching, writing and directing a play about the American Military presence in the province during WWII. While in the U.K., she volunteered with the Royal National Institute of Blind People.

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