Telephone: (843) 953-7733
Fax: (843) 953-8210
Office: Room 218-C, Albert Simons Center for the Arts
Email: turnerl@cofc.edu

Laura Manning Turner (B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing - New York University, M.F.A. in composition for Music Theater - New York University) was born in Charleston, S.C. and now teaches at the College of Charleston where her teaching specialty is Theatre for Youth. Before coming to the College of Charleston she taught at the University of Northern Iowa as well as the Russian Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia where she taught courses on American Theatre. 
       Collaborating with her husband she has written several musicals for young audiences including MarsQuest, The Wizard of Wartville, and WorldSong which won a national playwriting competition. Their production, Glow: The Story of Marie Curie, was a collaboration with the Charleston Museum and was performed in December 2001. She also produced the show Redcoats for the museum, about the Revolutionary War, in October 2003.
       Along with the publication of her incidental score for a boy and his piano, by the Dramatic Publishing Company, her honors include being chosen to participate in the New Dramatist Composer/Librettist Workshop in New York City as well as the winner of the Renee B. Fisher Foundation Composition Competition which resulted in a commissioned work for the piano.