As a playwright Laura recently won the 2025 Gayle Waxenberg Award and was awarded a 29-hour Equity developmental presentation of her first play Oregon Off-Broadway, directed by Jenn Thompson and starring Cass Morgan and Finnerty Steeves. The presentation is a co-production with New York Rep and Sea Dog Theater and will happen April 26th, 2025, 3 PM at Sea Dog Theater.
Before that, Oregon received a staged reading at LTV Studios with the Playwrights Theater of East Hampton as well as at Music Theater of Connecticut’s inaugural staged reading series, and was first developed by Bespoke Plays during the pandemic.
She also recently finished writing and co-composing a new musical, Jews: The Musical with award winning writer and filmmaker, Marc Brener and composers Sonja Florman and Tevi Eber, as well as her second full length play which explores the corrosive power of entitlement and the emotional fallout of estate battles, as siblings clash over their late father’s legacy and confront what they’re willing to sacrifice for what they believe they deserve.
Laura’s Work
Oregon
Oregon follows three generations of women as they navigate end-of-life care for their 88-year-old matriarch, confronting the emotional and ethical complexities of medically assisted death. Guided by a compassionate hospice nurse, they find strength through reflection, humor, and love in the face of impending loss.
Inheritance
Inheritance is a play about the grip of entitlement and the complexities of family estate law. When a family gathers at their late father’s lake house to settle his estate, tensions rise when one sibling believes he deserves more than what was left to him. What—or who—is he willing to sacrifice to claim it? And how far will the executor go to honor her father’s wishes? As the siblings clash over their father’s life, death, and legacy, they risk destroying what remains of their own bond. Grief changes people. So does money.
Jews: The Musical
Jews: The Musical! : What happens when a jaded Jewish playwright from the Upper West Side teams up with an ambitious Muslim producer from the Islamic Kingdom of Shiram to put on a Broadway show? A miracle or a meltdown. Maybe both.
An unapologetically hilarious, surprisingly heartfelt exploration of identity, division, and the absurd ways we try (and fail) to understand each other. It’s a show about politics, race, religion, gender, and sexuality, but told through big musical numbers, biting satire, and a core belief that music, love, and laughter can connect even sworn enemies.
As their wildly different worlds collide over scripts, egos, bagels, and censorship, we get a front-row seat to the chaos of collaboration and the beauty of breaking barriers.
And more soon…
