Laura’s eclectic career includes television, news, theater, fiction, and film. A founding member of a traveling theater company, her first professional play was produced in a former porn theater while the company itself was housed in a (closed) brothel. And things just got weirder from there.

She worked in children’s television as well as news and current affairs for PBS, winning several awards in political journalism, before moving to Los Angeles and writing on such shows as Highlander and Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and consulting on pilots like The Invisible Man. She helps writers and production companies pitch their TV series and movies, and is currently in partnership with Snowfall Films on two of her own original projects. Her horror film, Most Likely to Die, is forthcoming from Mar Vista Entertainment.

Laura’s short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including the Sisters In Crime anthology, “Last Exit to Murder,” and the Bram Stoker-nominated “Hell Comes to Hollywood.” The upcoming anthology, “Live Free or Ride,” features her latest story, a feminist Steampunk Western. It’s a growing genre. Growing by one, at any event.

But it’s not all blood and guts. Her webseries, Faux Baby, takes on the lighter side of parenting. And if the faux baby loses a limb here or there, well… No, actually, she has no justification for that at all.

Learn more at her website, LauraBrennanWrites.com.

Oh, goodness. I won several journalism awards while at PBS in news and current affairs. I helped create The Open Door Theater Company, which toured for three years around the East Coast, producing classic and new plays with the people who lived in our host towns. I've worked on several Saturday-afternoon, syndicated action adventure shows (Highlander, The Lost World, The Invisible Man) and I adapted L.A. Banks' novel, "Minion," for film. I've also written or helped develop two dozen TV series for various production companies. My short stories have appeared in "An Evening at Joe's" and the upcoming "Hell Comes to Hollywood" anthology. And my slasher film, "Most Likely to Die," has been optioned by WindChill Films.

I'm a pitch consultant. I work with individual writers, showrunners and production companies to help them develop and pitch their project or slate of projects. I also help non-writers develop their own personal brand to market their business or nonfiction book or website.