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LATHROP's full length plays have received productions in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Rome and elsewhere. They include THE VISIBLE HORSE (developed at the National Playwrights Conference), THE URN OF DREW (finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), HELL ON WHEELS (commissioned by the Philadelphia Festival Theatre), THE EIGHTEENTH MITZVAH (Richard Hugo House New Play Prize), DREAMS OF BABY (Best New Play, 1993 Seattle Times Footlight Awards), TALES FROM THE SALTMINES (commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre, developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, and finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Competition), THE SIX BASIC RULES (Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Prize), THE LILY & LOU SHOW, and EES STORY UFF POOR SEA VILLAGE GERL.
She has received Fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission, the Seattle Arts Commission, and Artists Trust. THE VISIBLE HORSE is published by Smith & Kraus in the collection Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001 . From 1998 - 2004 she taught playwriting at the University of Washington. She divides her time between a small town in Washington state and an even smaller town in Umbria in Italy.