Laura Horton

Laura Horton is a writer and the current Plymouth Laureate of Words, the first playwright Laureate. Her plays include: Labyrinth Diet at The Space, OFFCOMM winner; Breathless, Pleasance at Edinburgh Fringe, 2022, winner of a Fringe First, Pleasance and Theatre Royal Plymouth Partnership, Popcorn and BBC Writer’s Room finalist, Holden Street and Scottish Mental Health Awards shortlist. Breathless was staged at Soho Theatre in 2023 and will be in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway until 7th May 2023. Short plays include: Come to Where I’m From, commissioned by Paines Plough; Giddy Tuppy, TRP and The Space; Bloody Men, Minituarists at The Arcola and TRP; This I Believe, Downstage Write at Exeter Phoenix and TRP. 

An artistic associate of The Space, Laura has launched a new digital project, Hidden by Things, to run alongside Breathless. In 2020 she wrote and produced a short film, A Summer of Birds, for Plymouth Fringe, the film won the Toast of the Fringe award. She was listed in The Stage 100 in 2021 for her work lobbying and campaigning with her project Theatre Stories, which seeks to change public perceptions about who theatre is for. She is currently on commission with Theatre Royal Plymouth. She has written journalistically for Vogue, The Guardian, The Observer, The i and Huffington Post.