Winner of the New York Musical Theater Festival Award for Outstanding Individual Performance as the title character in The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun. Laura also received the NYU Craft Award for Lead Actress in the film, Sincerely Yours, and the Inland Theatre League Award for Educating Rita.

She recently wowed audiences as Judy Garland and Janis Joplin in the musical Hell's Belles at the Abingdon Theatre and HA Comedy Club, and won rave reviews in the Off Broadway revival, Johnny on a Spot. Laura also performed with Academy Award winner, F. Murray Abraham, in the staged reading of the play Sin.

Other New York credits include Kaboom at Cherry Lane, Steve Cohen and the Sweet Spot, Got You with Heather Laws, Lucky Stiff, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with Emily Skinner, The Comic, Rounds, and FANS.

Laura wrote, produced and performed the solo shows CHEER and Love in 35 Minutes, and her sketch script Manny the Manicurist was read at The People's Improv Theatre.

Regional roles include Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Rita in Lucky Stiff, Daisy in Biloxi Blues, Elizabeth in Frankenstein, and Doris in The Owl and the Pussycat. Laura also created various improv characters for corporate events like Bloomberg's Summer Party and Mt. Hope Productions.

Films include A Walk in the Past, Divine Intervention, Laundry, and EveryDay. Guest starred on "The Captain Noah Show" (WPHL) and was recently seen in the independent feature film, Marty's Magnificent Day-Glo Dream-a-Thon as Marty's Mom.

Coming up, Laura plays a Bette Midler impersonator in the play, Maybe This Time, and a former punk rocker juggling motherhood in the musical, How To Marry a Divorced Man.