TV Writer and Comedian

Laura Mannino grew up in White Plans, New York, once a home of the Revolutionary War, now the site of The Westchester, the fancy mall with an Au Bon Pain. The person most likely to be asked to watch your stuff, Laura spent her summers and Saturdays in youth theatre programs writing and acting in cranky adolescent plays about her cranky adolescence. She graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. After college, Laura performed stand-up at every bar, former strip club, current yoga studio, and actual dungeons around New York City. 

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After moving to Los Angeles, Laura wrote and starred in the short comedy Ten Minute Decade that screened at New Filmmakers NY and was a Hammer Museum's Open Projector Night finalist. At UCB, Laura performed improv and wrote for sketch shows in every bar, former strip club, current yoga studio, and dungeons turned parking garages around Los Angeles. Her half-hour pilot, Bomb about navigating stand-up as a new mom, was a PAGE Awards and Final Draft Big Break Semifinalist and Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Her produced credits include Consulting Producer on MTV's Loveline with Amber Rose and Quibi's Sexology with Shan and Sketch Writer for Awestruck's Asshole Parents.

Laura is the founder of Drain The NRA, a grassroots organization that successfully pressured corporations to end their affiliation with the NRA. She also helmed Los Angeles for Warren by organizing volunteer teams for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign, which led her to work full time as a campaign field organizer.

Laura lives in Highland Park with her six-year-old son, Harry, and her husband, Alex, whom she met at NYU while hunting for bars that don't card. Now that her services as a Zoom Kindergarten Supervisor are no longer needed, she is very excited to get back to creating, hugging, and watching your stuff at the airport. 

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WRITTeN BY Laura