Melissa Leilani Larson

Melissa Leilani Larson is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been seen on four continents. Her plays include Martyrs’ Crossing, Pride and Prejudice, Little Happy Secrets, Pilot Program, The Edible Complex, Sweetheart Come, and Mountain Law. Her films include Jane and Emma and Freetown. Two of her plays are published in Third Wheel, available from BCC Press. Mel is the 2018 recipient of the Smith-Pettit Foundation award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters, as well as a three-time winner of the Association for Mormon Letters drama award. She was also a 2016 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.