She names Helen Edmundson, Sarah Ruhl, Richard Greenberg, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Lillian Hellman, and Oscar Wilde as some of her favorite playwrights.
[6] Martyrs' Crossing, originally titled Angels Unaware, shows St. Catherine and St. Margaret influencing Joan of Arc through her resistance and martyrdom and was first produced in 2006 at BYU.
[8] Fellow Utah playwright Mahonri Stewart[9] wrote that while Larson beautifully emphasized the humanity of Catholic saints, the chorus of historians was "redundant."
[10] Larson won the 2009 AML award for drama for Little Happy Secrets, a play about a faithful young LDS woman who develops romantic feelings for her female roommate.
"[11] In his blog, Brigham Young University English professor Gideon Burton[12] described the play as "[making] the problem of same-sex attraction [...] normal, that is, as credible.
Critic Katie Roundy found the live piano music and title cards occasionally distracted from the main action, but that the play left her "wanting more.
"[16] Salt Lake City Weekly gave Pride and Prejudice a "Best Modern Jane" headline, stating that Larson's adaptation felt "fresh without resorting to gimmickry.
[28] Writing for The Utah Review, Les Roka described Larson's script as "a fascinating, cogent interpretation of Emma Hauck’s story.
"[29] Larson adapted Rabindranath Tagore's The Post Office for a theater collaboration between the Granite School District, Plan-B Theatre, Gandhi Alliance for Peace, and the United Nations Association of Utah.
"[39] Mariah Proctor at Meridian magazine wrote that the film "issues an invitation to a conversation" about the two women and their relationship to each other and the LDS Church.
[40] Fellow Plan-B playwright Eric Samuelsen reviewed the film in BYU Studies, writing that Larson's script "honors the history in which the story is rooted while fictionalizing when needed.
The award citation stated that Larson "offers herself as a witness to both the pain and faith of her fellow Saints when their obedience to God pushes them up against the limits of their endurance.