Independent Writers' Caucus
Laura Mannino
While growing up in White Plains, New York, Laura desperately wanted to play the Head Bitch In Charge Duchess in a school production of Twelfth Night. She was cast as the funny maid who hangs out with drunks instead. That set Laura up nicely for a life of performing stand-up, sketch, and improv at bars, former strip clubs, current yoga studios, and actual dungeons throughout NYC and LA after graduating from NYU and UCB.
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 has also written for Ora TV, Disney Television Animation, Viacom Velocity, Here TV, and A&E Networks Digital. Laura adapted her half-hour pilot, Bodice Rippers, into an audio drama. In her Substack, Flossing in the Apocalypse, Laura reflects on grief, eldest daughter syndrome, and bearing witness to systemic collapse as her perimenopausal hormones try to kill her. But it's funny. Promise!
Passionate about progressive politics, Laura has written social media and voter-engagement videos for The Hometown Project, which pairs celebrities with down-ballot candidates. She also founded the grassroots gun reform group Drain The NRA, which has been covered by The New York Times, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter, and worked as a field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. Laura lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and terrier, Ruffles.
Honors & Awards
Fiction Podcast Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - BODICE RIPPERS Audio Drama - 2025
Comedy Semifinalist and Scholarship Winner, CineStory Foundation TV Retreat - BODICE RIPPERS - 2024
Grand Prize Winner, Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition - BODICE RIPPERS - 2023
Non-WGA/Caucus Only
Female, 40+
BODICE RIPPERS
Half-Hour TV Rom-Com Buddy Comedy
BRIDGERTON meets HACKS with a wink & a nod to OUTLANDER
When a romance fanfiction writer who prefers her laptop over the limelight helps a runaway princess in the Scottish Highlands, she’s thrust into a media firestorm and into the arms of the celebrity of her secret fantasies.
STORM THE CASTLE
Half-Hour TV Workplace Comedy
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY meets PARKS & RECREATION
In this modern Robin Hood, obedient Robin returns to her hometown of Sherwood, NJ. There she finds her merry band of rogues to steal back what Sheryl Nottingham, the corrupt exec of Joust Castle, took from its workers to save her family’s legacy.
BLOOD SISTERS
Supernatural Comedy Feature
PRACTICAL MAGIC meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD
After the unexpected death of her mom, an uptight interior designer and her goth daughter tap into their secret witch powers to stop a vampire beauty influencer and a very distant relative, from taking over their small town with a witchy past.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Late Night, Sketch
Female, 40+
unrepped