Laura Skopec is a screenwriter, stand-up comedian, and recovering policy wonk. She is a staff writer on DIVORCE RANCH, and audio drama, and her screenplay MERRYVILLE is under a shopping agreement. Her screenplays and pilots have been featured on The Stunt List and have been recommended by The Blacklist and Script Pipeline. She has appeared at the New York Underground Comedy Festival, the DC Improv, the DC Drafthouse, Tao Comedy Studio, and the Laugh Riot Grrl Comedy Festival. She has also published humor pieces in McSweeney’s and other outlets. Laura writes genre-bending comedies about unruly women. She recently moved from DC to Orange County, CA (yes, she knows) and is horrified that her son now calls her “brah.”
Screenplays
A holiday horror/comedy feature
When a girls’ trip to a quaint Christmas village becomes a Hallmark hellscape, the sidekick of the group must slay the evil Mayor, rescue her brainwashed friends, and maybe even get a holiday romcom ending of her own.Every Hallmark Christmas movie meets CABIN IN THE WOODS.
Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
Recommended by Script Pipeline
Recommended by NoBullscript Consulting
A one-hour crime dramedy
When their conman dad resurfaces unexpectedly with stage four cancer, two squabbling sisters are forced back into the con life in Florida’s thriving elder fraud underworld to save him..
Featured on The Stunt List
Featured on The Grey List
8 on The Blacklist
A half-hour television comedy
A stand-up comedian blows up her career in a drunken tirade and takes a job as a kids party entertainer while she navigates recovery.
In Development
Humor Publications
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
A Hollywood Executive’s Notes on a Birthing Video
Fat Lady Attempts to Get Health Care: An Oral History
Slackjaw Humor
An Open Letter to My Son’s Reading Curriculum
Karen Sends Her Son, a Very Gifted Young Man, to Public School
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