Laura Mannino
Comedy Screenwriter
While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head Bitch In Charge Duchess, whom everyone was in love with in a school production of TWELFTH NIGHT. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. When Laura got her first laugh, she knew that was the dragon she would chase from now on. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and UCB, she performed stand-up, improv, and sketch at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA.
Laura loves writing modern-day fairytale comedies about fed-up women on the lowest rung of life's ladder who find ways to challenge the patriarchy. Her rompy, romantic half-hour comedy series, BODICE RIPPERS, is Black List Recommended, an ATX Festival Pitch Competition Runner-Up, PAGE Awards Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Winner, and CineStory TV Retreat Comedy Scholarship Winner.
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 also wrote for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital. She joined THE HOMETOWN PROJECT to write voter engagement videos for celebrities in partnership with Michigan and Ohio Democrats.
Laura founded the grassroots gun reform group, DRAIN THE NRA, and worked for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign as a field organizer. She lives in Highland Park with her rescued terrier, Ruffles, son, and husband, whom she met at NYU while hunting for bars that don't card.
Press
CineStory 2024 TV Contest Scholarship Winners
Coverfly
CNN: Group Rallies Against Gun Violence in Downtown Los Angeles
Deadline: Stowe Story Labs Announces Its 2022 Narrative Lab
Final Draft Blog: Laura Mannino Is Pitch Perfect
GOLD Comedy
HLN: At the People’s Rally Against Gun Violence
Hollywood Reporter: Year of the Hollywood Female Activist
New York Times: Big and Small, NRA Boycott Efforts Come Together in Gun Debate
The Project TV Interview: Draining the NRA
Roadmap Writers Blog: 2023 Top Tier Competition Winner
Accolades
2024 CineStory Retreat Fellowship Semifinalist & TV Comedy Scholarship Winner
2023 PAGE Awards TV Comedy Pilot Finalist
2023 Coverfly Top 1% and Red List
2023 Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition Winner
2022 Stowe Story Labs The Law Firm of Stacey A. Davis Fellow
2022 ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition Runner-Up
2022 Black List Recommended
2022 AFF/UCLA Extension Virtual Pitch Finalist