EXT. NEWCASTLE - ■■■■ YEARS AGO

LAURA

Comedy is at the heart of everything Laura does and her work aims to lower your guard with laughs before hitting you with a big feely gut punch.  As a queer neurodiverse writer her work draws from her lived experiences, with queer characters often at the centre. When she’s not writing she can be found playing football or playing pretend at improv.

Laura trained in acting at The Oxford School of Drama before completing her Masters in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at The Royal Central School for Speech and Drama.

She is a BAFTA Connect member and a member of the WGGB.

Her award winning short film Wolf which was starring Alexa Davies, recently finished a hugely successful festival run. Premiering at the prestigious BFI Flare, it has since been screened at festivals all over the world.

For radio Laura’s writing was featured in series 14 of the multi-award winning BBC Radio 4 show The Skewer. She co-created and wrote the podcast series The People Outside which ran for 2 seasons.

Her debut play Baby Box ran at The York Theatre Royal following a successful run at The Kings Head in London.

She has been nominated and shortlisted for a number of writing awards and has an original series currently in the early stages of development.

She has two original series and a feature film ready to be pitched and plenty of other ideas in the works.

But Mam, I don’t want to be a boxer, I want to write jokes and occassionally make people cry.