Having worked for years as an actress, Laurie’s love of dialogue led her to writing. A published novelist, she’s known for the chick-lit books, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs, Looking for Mr. Goodfrog and The Shiksa Syndrome. As well, she’s contributed to Live Alone and Like It, It’s A Wonderful Lie, Scenes from a Holiday, No Kidding, and publications Splash Magazines, New York Times “Complaint Box” and Full Grown People.
A produced and published OOB playwright, Laurie’s short plays have been produced at the Workshop Theater where she’s a longtime company artist. She was a Summit Playhouse finalist for Better Than Steve &Eydie. Several one-acts have been published, The Incredible Egg (2016 The Best Ten-Minute Plays), All My Problems (2013 The Best Ten-Minute Plays) including speeches in...
Having worked for years as an actress, Laurie’s love of dialogue led her to writing. A published novelist, she’s known for the chick-lit books, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs, Looking for Mr. Goodfrog and The Shiksa Syndrome. As well, she’s contributed to Live Alone and Like It, It’s A Wonderful Lie, Scenes from a Holiday, No Kidding, and publications Splash Magazines, New York Times “Complaint Box” and Full Grown People.
A produced and published OOB playwright, Laurie’s short plays have been produced at the Workshop Theater where she’s a longtime company artist. She was a Summit Playhouse finalist for Better Than Steve &Eydie. Several one-acts have been published, The Incredible Egg (2016 The Best Ten-Minute Plays), All My Problems (2013 The Best Ten-Minute Plays) including speeches in New Monologues for Women by Women and Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 1999. Love in the Time of Recession - The Musical and Charlie & Flo (PS NBC), have been at HERE Arts Center, Across a Crowded Room at Lincoln Center. Currently, she’s collaborating on a new musical, The Pet Project, about a pet bereavement group, for which she wrote the Libretto.