Serrana Laure Gay

Teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop

Serrana Laure Gay has published short fiction in the Hunger Journal, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and Prometheus Dreaming, and she is the author of the illustrated book Fatty Fatty No Friends (Mind the Art Entertainment), adapted from her operetta of the same name. Fatty Fatty No Friends was a New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominee, a selection of the New York International Fringe Festival, and winner of the Best of Fest prize at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her stage play Whiskey Pants: Mayor of Williamsburg won the Audience Favorite Award at the Frigid NY festival, and some of her other plays have been produced by Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, the HERE Arts Center, and Feinstein’s 54 Below, among others. She has worked as a tutor at Westchester Community College and as a teaching assistant/intern at the State University of New York at Purchase, and she has taught at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. She holds a BFA from Ithaca College and an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.