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 bottom 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.
The pilot of Bodice Rippers is available to listen as a narrative audio comedy.
Recent scripts include a modern, female Robin Hood workplace half-hour comedy, Storm the Castle, a witch and vampire comedy feature, Frostbite, and a ten-episode romance vertical sample, Til Wealth Do Us Part.
Laura is currently working with vertical apps, NetShort and DashReels, adapting Chinese vertical series for American audiences.
In her Substack, Flossing in the Apocalypse, Laura reflects on grief, eldest daughter syndrome, and bearing witness to systemic collapse as her perimenopausal hormones try to kill her. 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.
Laura is a member of the Independent Writers' Caucus and the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
Accolades
Semi-Finalist
PAGE International Screenplay Awards · 2016
Bomb
Finalist
PAGE International Screenplay Awards · 2023
Bodice Rippers
Projects
Bodice Rippers (Audio Comedy Adaptation)
When a romance fanfiction writer who prefers her laptop over the limelight helps a runaway princess in the Scottish Highlands, she’s thrust into a media firestorm and into the arms of the celebrity of her secret fantasies.
Podcast
Til Wealth Do Us Part (10-Episode Vertical Script)
An heir rebels against his family by asking a humble waitress to marry him. She agrees on one condition: he must fund her charity. When his greedy mother makes her life hell, they discover there’s more chemistry between them than accounting.
Web Series
Storm The Castle
In this modern, female Robin Hood story, obedient Robin returns to her hometown of Sherwood, NJ. There she finds her merry band of rogues to steal back what Sheryl Nottingham took from its workers to save her family’s legacy.
Television (Half-hour)
Frostbite
On the longest night of the year, an uptight accountant and her goth daughter tap into their dormant witch powers to battle their vampire ancestor, who descends on their town’s Christmas festival to carry out revenge hundreds of years in the making.
Feature
Bodice Rippers
When a romance fanfiction writer who prefers her laptop over the limelight helps a runaway princess in the Scottish Highlands, she’s thrust into a media firestorm and into the arms of the celebrity of her secret fantasies.
Television (Half-hour)