​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. That set Laura up nicely for a life of performing stand-up, sketch, and improv at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA after graduating from NYU and UCB.
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 half-hour rom-com, BODICE RIPPERS, is Black List Recommended, an ATX Festival Pitch Competition Runner-Up, a CineStory TV Retreat Comedy Scholarship Winner, a PAGE Awards Finalist, a 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.
In her Substack, FLOSSING IN THE APOCALYPSE, Laura reflects on grief and eldest daughter syndrome as institutional democratic norms and her own hormones race to see who collapses first. 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.