A published member of BMI since 2001, Laurie has written music and lyrics featured on Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets!, on Essential Voices USA’s Celebrating the American Spirit, in The Pushcart Players’ Happily Ever After: A Cinderella Tale, and in other plays. Laurie earned a BA in Writing for Film & TV and an Evvy nomination for a personal essay from Emerson College. In both 2014 and 2015, she was a finalist for the Warner Bros. Writers' Workshop Program, and she has received recognition in over a dozen screenwriting competitions and film festivals. Laurie is a graduate of the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and, together with classmate and writing partner Bryan Blaskie, she is a two-time semi-finalist for development at the O’Neill Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference.

With Bryan Blaskie (Composer, Co-Book): Forty Elephants took its first steps with the New York Theatre Barn’s Choreography Lab in April 2025 and received its first staged reading in September of the same year; Ghost Girls: An Undark Musical was spotlighted by The Duplex’s In The Works series twice in 2019, received its first full reading in May 2022 (produced by Brian Haas), and was later presented in concert at 54 Below in March 2023; Nothing to See Here received its world premier at Rubber City Theatre (Akron, Ohio) in 2021, has been highlighted in the New York Theatre Barn’s New Work Series and was featured in their September 2022 Choreography Lab.