Laura Mannino

​While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head B In Charge Duchess, whom everyone was in love with in a school production of TWELFTH NIGHT. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. When Laura got her first laugh, she knew that was the dragon she would chase from now on. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and UCB, she performed stand-up, improv, and sketch at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA.

Laura loves writing modern-day fairytale comedies about fed-up women on the lowest rung of life's ladder who find ways to challenge the patriarchy. Her rompy, romantic half-hour comedy series, BODICE RIPPERS, is Black List Recommended, an ATX Festival Pitch Competition Runner-Up, PAGE Awards Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Winner, and CineStory TV Retreat Comedy Scholarship Winner.

Credits include Consulting Producer on MTV's LOVELINE WITH AMBER ROSE and Quibi's SEXOLOGY WITH SHAN and Sketch Writer for Awestruck's ASSHOLE PARENTS. Laura also wrote for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital. She joined THE HOMETOWN PROJECT to write voter engagement videos for celebrities in partnership with Michigan and Ohio Democrats.

Laura founded the grassroots gun reform group, DRAIN THE NRA, and worked for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign as a field organizer. She lives in Highland Park with her rescued terrier, Ruffles, son, and husband, whom she met at NYU while hunting for bars that don't card.