
Originally from sunny California, Laura Daniel has been called "the little woman with a BIG voice." She began performing at age 5 when she played the Big Bad Wolf in a school production of "The Three Little Pigs." Professional acting work soon followed with roles in Annie at the San Bernadino Civic Light Opera and playing Helen Keller in
The Miracle Worker.
She attended Idyllwild's School of Music and the Arts and New York's American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Regional credits include Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Daisy in Biloxi Blues, Elizabeth in Frankenstein, Doris in The Owl and the Pussycat, and Rita in Educating Rita, for which she won the Inland Theatre League Award. She also performed at the Grand Ol' Opry with Theatreworks USA.
In NY Laura has been involved in many new works. She wrote, produced and performed the solo shows, CHEER and Love in 35 Minutes. She also received the New York Musical Theater Festival Award of Excellence for Outstanding Individual Performance as the title character in The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun. She recently reprised this role of Jeanine, the Singing Nun, in the concert, Bound For Broadway VIII, performing with Broadway stars, Mary Testa, Chip Zien and Liz Callaway.
She won raves as Judy Garland and Janis Joplin in the new musical Hell's Belles and as Rita in the Ahrens & Flaherty musical Lucky Stiff at both Mason Street Warehouse and the Astoria Performing Arts Center.
Filmwork includes leading roles in the shorts, Divine Intervention, Laundry, Everyday, and Sincerely Yours, for which she won NYU's Craft Award.
She sung the title role for the children's musical Lilly's Big Day and performed early pieces of the new musical, The Kid.
Most recently Laura performed with Emily Skinner in the reading of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and she will be playing Sigmund Freud's wife, Martha, in the upcoming reading of the musical, Vienna.