Laura Kirk

Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnolds American Honey Cannes 2016 The Sublime and Beautiful Slamdance 2014 A veteran on the independent film festival circuit Kirk cowrote and starred one of the first digital films Lisa Picard is Famous Cannes 2000 It is included in John Gaspards book Fast Cheap and Under Control Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time Kirk began her career on stage in New York offBroadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors Verizon Wrangler Jeans Jeep and Dr Pepper Laura is a cofounder of the mentoring group Women of Lawrence Film where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming When Women Wrote Hollywood Forthcoming McFarland