Lauren Gunderson most produced living playwright in 2016 and 2017. Gunderson was awarded the Lanford Wilson award in 2016. Her play "I and You" was the winner of the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Forward Theater, located in Madison, Wisconsin, will stage "I and You" from November 2–19, 2017. Artists Repertory Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, will stage "I and You" from May 20 to June 17, 2018. Gunderson's play "Exit, Pursued By A Bear" has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin,
The Children (play) for Best Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play (Findlay). The Australian co-production by the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company won the 2018 Helpmann Award for Best Play. Its director, Sarah Goodes, won the 2018 Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play and Pamela Rabe won the 2018 Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play. The play is being shown in Toronto, Canada at the Canadian Stage Theater from September 25 to October 21. The play concerns two retired nuclear physicists, the married couple Hazel and Robin, who live in a remote cottage