The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog! opens to a rave from The Washington Post:

“The science geeks have all the fun in “The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!,” a jauntily educational children’s musical at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Featuring a book and lyrics by Lauren Gunderson, with a perky pop-show tune score by Brian Lowdermilk… Director Sean Daniels and his creative team deliver some cheeky humor with their science lessons… In the moments after the curtain call, one youngster was heard to gush to his parent: ‘That was awesome!’”

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Amazing press for Exit, Pursued By A Bear across the country!

Featured in American Theatre Magazine - ”Bear is raw and hilarious.”

Nationally profiled in The Week Magazine here:

“Gunderson’s script not only makes each character adorably quirky but engenders empathy for all four as well. This show contains enough offbeat and grisly – no pun intended – humor that the Bard’s immortally funny line is a fitting title.”

“Falling in love with a playwright whose work you’re experiencing for the first time feels like Christmas morning at age 6 – giddy excitement, new toys, wonder and sugar high all wrapped up in a nice holiday package. That’s what it felt like the other night at the Boxcar Playhouse watching Crowded Fire Theater Company’s production of Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, a Georgia native who now lives and works in San Francisco.” - Chad Jones, Theater Dogs! Read more.

“Exit is a spirited comedy, able and clever”-  Rob Avila, SF Bay Guardian

“It is a well-balanced mix of serious subject matter and laughter.  The play is real and highly unlikely, but it’s the highly unlikely parts that make the on-stage witnessing of the real-life, depressing, heart breaking horror of domestic violence possible… It was perfect.” - Kim Frndak | Community Educator for the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence

“If the Coen Brothers decided to set a feminist revenge tale in Atlanta and sprinkle it with Dixie Chicks pixie dust, it might look something like “Exit, Pursued by a Bear,” a raucous comedy… of friendship, domestic abuse and performance-as-catharsis.” -  Felicia Feaster | ArtsCritic Atlanta (Read Full Story)

“It’s Dixie Chicks’ ‘Goodbye Earl’ meets 9-5,” -  WABE, Atlanta’s NPR Station. 

Plus a wonderful radio piece by Myke Johns at WABE about the world behind Bear from Atlanta’s NPR station – (Listen Here)

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Atlanta’s Creative Loafing previews Bear here.

“Lauren Gunderson is a master of science. Exit, Pursued By a Bear establishes Gunderson as rising national talent.” – Curt Holman, Creative Loafing

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Great reviews fo Silent Sky at South Coast Rep:

“The dialogue sublime and the performances enormously engrossing,” – Broadway World

“Perfection.” - The Examiner

“Silent Sky makes for just the right blend of human relationships, science, and romance.” – StageSceneLA.com

“Charmingly lyrical – With a penchant for subtle wit and sincerely earnest dialogue—the sort of beguiling back-and-forth you’d expect from the best period wordplays on premium TV scripts—Gunderson has a nicely-crafted play that gives us a headstrong heroine nerd to root for from America’s little-known historical margins.” – BroadwayWorld

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 Seattle Times – Preview: ‘Emilie‘ at ArtsWest shows an 18th-century female scientist’s remarkable life, loves

“ArtsWest stages playwright Lauren Gunderson’s account of the amazing true story of Emilie, the Marquise du Châtelet, who was a scientist, aristocrat and lover of Voltaire’s.”

More love for EMILIE in Seattle!

 ”An evening of humor and heartbreak with a powerhouse ending.” - BroadwayWorld

“How does EMILIE work? Brilliantly.” The Examiner

“A triumph.” Seattle Gay Scene 

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“At the relatively young age of 25, writer-actress-activist Gunderson has amassed an impressive list of honors and awards for forward-thinking works (“Baby M,” “Leap,” “Parts They Call Deep”) that grapple with science, history and feminism. Atlanta’s own Eve Ensler? Absolutely.”

– The Sunday Paper, May 2007

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“The verdict: Lauren Gunderson shows signs of preternatural brilliance.”
– Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 2004

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“Carrying the torch for a new generation of Atlanta playwrights is Lauren Gunderson.”
– Alliance Theatre, Feature Story, Feb. 2006

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“There’s no denying she’s one of the most formidably talented voices to emerge here in years.”
– Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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“It’s Gunderson’s undeniable talent that have earned her acclaim.”
– Curt Holman, Creative Loafing, Feb. 2004

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“LEAP features splendid language and easy confidence with heady material. Think Tom Stoppard, not Sex in the City.”
– Curt Holman

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“Gunderson is a prodigy.”
– Atlanta Magazine, Jan. 2004

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