Ms. Laurie Woolery

Theater Associate

Laurie Woolery is the Associate Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company. As a director and playwright, she has collaborated on many new works including A Holtville Night’s Dream written by Alison Carey and the people of Holtville, California as part of the Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency, 3/7/11: A Lincoln Heights Tale written by Jose Cruz Gonzalez and the students of Loreto Elementary, Nightingale Middle School and Lincoln High School as part of Cornerstone’s first youth community collaboration.

Cornerstone Theater Company commissioned her solo play Salvadorian Moon/African Sky for its citywide Festival of Faith. In Fall 2008, Laurie will be directing the third play in Cornerstone’s Justice Cycle that explores Punishment and Retribution. Several of her plays Scouting Reality, Bliss, The Hundred Dresses and Orphan Train: The Lost Children have received world premieres at South Coast Repertory. As a director, playwright, educator and actor, Laurie has worked at South Coast Repertory (Director of the Theatre Conservatory), Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Ricardo Montalban Theatre, Deaf-West Theatre, fofo Theatre, Highways Performance Space, A Noise Within, Sundance Playwrights Lab as well as the Sundance Children's Theatre.

Ms. Woolery worked with Bill Rauch on the world premiere of Lisa Loomer's Living Out at the Mark Taper Forum and SCR's Lovers and Executioners. She directed Amor Eterno - Six Lessons in Love (an anthology by six Latino playwrights) for the grand opening of the Ricardo Montalban Theatre. She also directed Bryan Davidson's Reflecting Back at the Los Angeles Central Library as part of the National Tour of the American Originals exhibit and Richard Coca's solo piece The Day I Flipped Off Jimmy Carter for SCR's Hispanic Playwrights Project. She is a long time artist with the Virginia Avenue Project and artist-in-residence for Hollygrove Children’s Home. Laurie is on faculty at California Institute of the Arts, Citrus College and Glendale College and serves on the Board of the Network of Ensemble Theaters.