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Here and Now
Feature Film
Screenwriter

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World Premiere: 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, under the title Blue Night
Released in Theaters November 2018
Now Available On Demand
Directed By Fabien Constant
Developed by and Starring Sarah Jessica Parker
Co-Starring
  • Renée Zellweger, ​Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Simon Baker, Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter, Gus Birney & Phillipa Soo

The Loudest Voice
Limited Series
Writer & Executive Producer

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Studio: Showtime
Premiered on June 30, 2019

Executive Produced By Tom McCarthy
Based on Gabriel Sherman's book The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News and Divided a Country
Starring
  • Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes
  • Sienna Miller as Beth Ailes
  • Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson

House of Cards
Television Series
Writer & Producer
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Studio: Netflix
Seasons: 2-5

Award Nominations:
  • 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Drama Series
  • 2015 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
Notable Episodes:
  • ​Laura wrote some of the series' most memorable episodes, including Claire's interview in "Chapter 17" and Francis' hallucination in "Chapter 45".

Reprieve
Short Film
Co-Writer
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Produced by The Interval
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Available Here
Premise: 
Reprieve reimagines three iconic female characters from theatre in a contemporary setting, connected only by the liminal space of one mysterious hotel room.
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Starring
  • Ruthie Ann Miles as Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie  (written by Laura Eason)
  • Carmen Zilles as Portia from Julius Caesar  (written by Tanya Saracho)
  • Betsy Wolfe as Emily Webb from  Our Town (written by Anna Ziegler)

The Rocks
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Limited Series (​In Development)
Adaptation & Series Creator
Studio: BBC
Adapted from Peter Nichols’ novel of the same name
Produced By
  • Entertainment One
  • 42
  • Automatik
Directed by Tom Harper

"Entertainment One has picked up television rights to Peter Nichols’ best-selling novel The Rocks, with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper on board to direct. Laura Eason ("House of Cards", Sex With Strangers) is attached to adapt the series. Harper, one of the hottest directors coming out of the UK at the moment, will produce along with Josh Varney, Ben Pugh and Eleanor Moran of 42, while La La Land producer Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones will executive produce via their Automatik banner." - Deadline
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