Laura is a director and teaching-artist newly relocated to Atlanta. She is a recipient of the Drama League's New Directors/New Works Project grant, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a former member of the Directing Company for the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU. A resident of Baltimore immediately prior to relocating to Atlanta, she was the Resident Director at the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, adjunct theatre faculty at Towson University, Director of Upper School Theatre and Chairperson of the Performing Arts Department at Roland Park Country School. Laura has directed more than sixty productions including numerous premiere productions of new plays in New York City, D.C., Baltimore, and Phoenix. Laura received her undergraduate degree in Theatre from Towson University and her MFA in Directing from The Catholic University of America.