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Til Dog Do Us Part, Laurie’s new women’s fiction with romantic elements, is set to pub Mar 30, ’27 (Rowan Prose Publishing). Best known for the chick-lit hit, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs that received a reissue, movie option, and multiple printings here and abroad, she’s also written the novels Looking for Mr. Goodfrog and The Shiksa Syndrome. As well, Laurie is a contributor to the books Live Alone and Like It, It’s A Wonderful Lie, Scenes from a Holiday, No Kidding, and publications Splash Magazines, New York Times “Complaint Box” and Full Grown People.
The Pet Project (Book by Laurie Graff, Music & Lyrics by Nancy Shayne) a new musical about pet loss, followed its successful NEST developmental production at New London Barn Playhouse with a studio demo. The piece is now in development under the auspices of Transport Group/Jack Cummings III. ​
Bio
A produced and published ​OOB playwright, At the Hotel Texas was included in the “Fifth Annual Women’s Playwright Festival” at the Ivoryton Playhouse and published (The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021) along with The Incredible Egg (The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016), All My Problems (The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013), work in New Monologues for Women by
Women Volume II and Best Men’s Stage Monologues 1999, with Better than Steve & Eydie a Finalist in the “Summit Playhouse Bake-Off.” Presentations include: Love in the Time of Recession - The Musical (“Across a Crowded Room” - Lincoln Center) and Charlie & Flo (PS NBC-HERE Arts Center) among many productions at Workshop Theater where she is a Company Artist.
Laurie is also the founder of ShopTalk, a creative salon and community for theater professionals, which she currently runs.
Having worked for years as an actress, Laurie did hundreds of commercials, and worked in shows on B’way, Off B’way, regionally and Nat’l tours. Her favorite theatrical role was “Frenchy” on Broadway in the iconic Grease, and her favorite commercial was as a switchboard operator for Maxwell House Coffee. She plays herself in the documentary, Mr. Right, and has done many promotional appearances for local and national television, radio and print.
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Laurie loves food, dogs, the beach and long talks over a glass of wine – especially by the river. She belongs to a book club, theater company and temple, B’nai Jeshurun. She enjoys spending time at her home in the Catskills, but a city girl at heart, Laurie loves living on the Upper West Side of New York City.