Laura Lomas is from Derby. She studied English at the University of Nottingham and completed an MPhil in Playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Her first play A Background Noise headlined the Momentum Young Writers Festival in 2005. Since then she has worked with the Royal Court and BBC writersroom on ‘the50' and ‘24 degrees' projects and most recently was selected for the BBC Radio Sparks residential.
Her first full length play Wasteland was produced in March '09 by New Perspectives and she is currently under commission from Nottingham Playhouse in association with the European Theatre Convention and the Det Norske Teatret, Oslo.
