Laura Hunter Drago is a writer and producer based in Los Angeles who was recently named one of Austin Film Festival’s “25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025.”

A Project Involve writing fellow with Film Independent, Laura is currently writing a short film called TRAD WIFE, set to release in 2026. As a screenwriter, she is a winner of the Austin Film Festival’s Fiction Podcast Script Award, winner of the WeScreenplay Short Script Lab, and a finalist for the Bellem Entertainment Fellowship with Stowe Story Labs, among other accolades. She also wrote the Webby Award Honoree audio fiction series THE CRIME AT CAMP ASHWOOD.

Laura produced the acclaimed podcast ST. MARY’S SCHOOL (FOR CHILDREN WITH THE STIGMATA), and directed the Coven Film Festival runner-up animated short THE ECHO. For her debut feature as a producer, Laura helmed the stage-to-screen adaptation of Samantha Macher’s play, TO THE NEW GIRL, which was honored by Women in Media with the Parity in Action Badge.

An alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts at The Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School, Laura’s first love was theatre… and though she now considers herself a retired–and recovering–actress, she remains a proud SAG-AFTRA member.