Biografie

Member of WGA West and Professional Member of Women in Film, Los Angeles.

"Man, Where's My shoe" has shown at the 2005 Garden State Film Festival (winner of Broader Vision Award), 2004 Nosotros American Latino Film Festival, and the 2004 Laugh Is Hope Comedy Film Festival.

Laurel has won numerous writing awards. These include the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for her screenplay, "The Route," the Milton Sperling Award for excellence in screenwriting, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, for her screenplay, "Finding Grace," and a Special Arts Projects Award, 4Culture, for "Facing West". She was a finalist for the 2012 Nicholl Fellowship Award and a semi finalist for the 2013 Austin Film Festival competition. She was a finalist for the 2017 Screencraft Film Production Award and for the 2019 Women in Film Production Program.