Founder/Executive Producer/Director

Laura is a senior graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.  She founded Silver Sparrow Productions in March of 2008. She has directed the past two SSP shows, bobrauschenbergamerica and Under Construction. Also she is the Executive Producer for The Painter's Tail, an animated short by Jacob Veldhuizen, in association with Field House Films.

She is on USC’s Dean’s List for her academic work within her major (Theatre, with a concentration on directing/producing) and her minor (TV/Film Production).  Laura started her USC career as the Dance Captain for the mainstage musical, USC’s largest and longest running show of the season, Carousel.  This honor as a freshman allowed Laura to work with the School of Theatre’s Artistic Director, Associate Dean Jack Rowe, who directed Carousel.  This relationship with Rowe progressed, as he became her academic advisor for her directed research for SSP’s  production, Under Construction by Charles L. Mee.  She has been involved with various USC productions from acting to assistant stage manager to master electrician.  She recently finished a competitive production internship at LA's largest, most respected regional theatre, Center Theatre Group.  As the production intern for the two largest theatres (The Mark Taper Forum and The Ahmanson Theatre), Laura had the chance to see the inner workings of established theatres.  During her time there, Dream Girls, Mary Poppins, The Subject Was Roses (starring Martin Sheen), and 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo played on these stages.  Laura was fortunate enough to work on various aspects of these productions.

However, Laura’s theatrical career started in Wausau, WI.  She began dancing at the Central Wisconsin School of Ballet at age three, and completed 15 years of ballet training.  Laura was a member of Wausau Dance Theatre since its founding ten years ago.  She has danced such roles as Clara in one of Newsweek's "Nine Most Notable Nutcrackers" (2003 and 2006), The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland and Puss ‘n Boots in Sleeping Beauty and has toured in Germany.  She has worked with such narrators as Tony Randall, Henry Winkler, and Danny Glover as soloists and semi-soloists in Carnival of the Animals.  And most recently, Laura was the administrative assistant for Elliot Gould's appearance in Carnival of the Animals. Laura made her directorial debut with No Exit, an existential drama by Jean-Paul Sartre in the 2007 East End Players’ One Act Plays.  This existential project was tied to her completion of the International Baccalaureate Programme, which resulted in a diploma from Geneva, Switzerland.  Laura was a recipient of WCT’s S.T.A.R. Scholarship, the Jerome Hartwig Theatre Scholarship, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate Scholarship, among many other awards and honors.

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