People over 50 60 are people.

1. Older People have dreams, too (so they can be the protagonist).

2. Your mom’s a person, not just the reason you’re fucked up.

3. YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S A PERSON!

4. Therefore, your mom (AND GRANDMOTHER) might have a dream (and it might not be you). 

Lauren Taslitz is a lyricist-librettist who lives in Chicago and New York. Writing credits include: Regretting Almost Everything (Barrington Stage and Feinstein’s/54 Below), You Gave Me a Sheep (National Asian Artists Project), A Statue of Stature (Prospect Theatre Company), Join the Club (The Evanston Arts Center, and The Skokie Theatre), and In My Book (Coastal Carolina University). Other musicals include: The Girl Who Cried Different, Mimosa, For the Birds, Bak Chang (Commission, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle), After They’ve Gone, and The Quantification of Relative Human Insignificance (Finalist, Sigworks 2016). Lauren is a 2020 MacDowell Fellow.

Lauren has been in residence at MacDowell, The Johnny Mercer Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, The Catwalk Institute, Barrington Stage Company, The 5th Ave Theatre in Seattle, and Coastal Carolina University. Her work has been performed at Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Barrington Stage Company, NYTB and various other venues in New York and Chicago. She has an MFA from NYU Tisch, a JD from Harvard Law School, a BA from Princeton University, and a certificate of completion from The Second City Writing Program. 

She is a founding member of The HomeBrewed Collective, and a member of The Recording Academy, The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and The Drama League.