​While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head Bitch In Charge Duchess in a school production of TWELFTH NIGHT. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. But 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 comedies about fed-up women on the lowest rung of life's ladder who find surprising ways to challenge the patriarchy.
Her romantic half-hour comedy, BODICE RIPPERS, is Black List Recommended, an ATX Festival Pitch Competition Runner-Up, a CineStory TV Retreat Comedy Scholarship Winner, PAGE Awards Finalist, Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition Winner, and a Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Winner.
BODICE RIPPERS is available as an audio drama proof-of-concept upon request..
After writing a modern, female Robin Hood workplace half-hour comedy, STORM THE CASTLE, Laura is currently writing a witch and vampire comedy feature, BLOOD SISTERS.
Laura reflects on grief, eldest daughter syndrome, and bearing witness to systemic collapse while in the throes of perimenopause in her Substack, FLOSSING IN THE APOCALYPSE. But it's funny. Promise.
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 has also written for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital.
Passionate about progressive politics, Laura joined The Hometown Project to write social media and voter engagement videos for celebrities partnered with down-ballot candidates. She also founded the grassroots gun reform group DRAIN THE NRA, which has been covered by The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, CNN, HLN, and The Project, and worked as a field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign.
Laura lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and terrier, Ruffles. When she's not watching Little League, you can find Laura sipping dirty martinis and dancing at The Garibaldina Society.