Laura Skopec is a screenwriter, stand-up comedian, and recovering federal bureaucrat. She was a staff writer on DIVORCE RANCH, an audio drama, and her screenplay MERRYVILLE is in development. 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 swears she was doing comedy before she got divorced – she is not a cliche!
Screenplays
CANDY
A horror/comedy feature
When a chubby, overlooked teen puts a curse on her fitness influencer mom’s protein powder, she accidentally turns the town’s popular kids and PTA moms into bloodthirsty cannibals..
MERRYVILLE
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 CEO, rescue her brainwashed friends, and maybe even get a holiday romcom ending of her own. Every Hallmark Christmas movie meets CABIN IN THE WOODS.
In Development
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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