Laura Colleluori is a producer, director, and occasional writer based in New York City. She currently works as the Production Manager at Market Road Films, an independent production company founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Emmy Award-winning film director Tony Gerber. With Market Road, she has produced, associate produced, and production managed film, tv, and podcast projects including Takeover (New York Times Op-Docs, Emmy Nomination, Oscars® Shortlist), Unfinished: Deep South (Witness Docs/Stitcher, Peabody Nomination), and Kingdom of the White Wolf (National Geographic). She also produced the debut episode of Earth Complex, a new digital series about our relationship to the natural world.
On stage, Laura’s recent production of Time Biter, a new play by Caroline Dunaway, won the Audience Favorite Award at Soho Playhouse’s Lighthouse Series. She is a company member at Open Stories Ensemble, and also enjoys collaborating with her friends at Blue Otter Theatre & with her partner, playwright Dante Flores. Laura is a former Drama League Art+Party resident, and has worked as a director, assistant director, dramaturg, and teaching artist at theaters in Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, Nantucket, and Bologna, Italy.
Laura holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Theater Arts and Italian Studies from Dickinson College, and has completed additional training at Duke University, Yale University, the University of Bologna, and The Funny School of Good Acting (now Pandemonium Studio). When she is not working you can find her baking through Dessert Person, trying to hit her pre-pandemic powerlifting PRs, and fighting for the New York Health Act, which would guarantee free, comprehensive healthcare for all New Yorkers.