Laura Valpey is an actor, improviser, flying trapeze artist and coach, teaching artist, and playwright! Her
background is rooted in Improvisational Theater. While studying at the University of Washington School
of Drama, she concurrently trained for three years with the improv theater company Unexpected Productions at The Market Theater in Seattle. She has been a performer, show co-creator, and teaching artist with Freestyle Repertory Theatre, an arts-in-education improv theater company in NYC, since 2001. Laura began playwriting in 2018 and now is a regular playwright/cast member of "Write Away", a monthly (virtual) show/jam co-produced by Synergy Theater and Freestyle Repertory Theatre where writers are given just 45 minutes to write a brand new play based on audience suggestions.
Her compilation of short plays, collectively titled "Where's the Baby?! (Parenting in Pieces)", received a staged reading at The Barrow Group in March, 2019. A few of these pieces have received recognition and production: The titular piece, "Where's the Baby?" was produced virtually by Spark Creative Works Women's Playwriting Project in 2021. "The Nanny" progressed to the Semi-Final round for MUSEUM OF DYSFUNCTION XII at Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company before the pandemic cancelled the project. And "To Go, or Not To-Go" was recently chosen as a winner of the Malvern Theatre Company's Short Play Writing Competition, with production planned for early 2024.
Laura lives in New York City with her husband, Bones, and children, Pike and Poppy Joy.