Laura Cahill

Teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop

Laura Cahill wrote the screenplay for the film Hysterical Blindness (HBO) based on her stage play of the same name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, for a Writers Guild Award, and for a Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special. She wrote the pilot and six episodes of the TV series Pornopolis for IFC, and has also written pilots for HBO, Touchstone, Paramount, and WB. She adapted the screenplays for What Matters Most, The Down Low, and B Mother (all for Lifetime), and wrote the original screenplays Witness Protection (CBS) and Boston Strangler (USA). Her produced stage plays include Sondra (Apothecary Theater Company), Mercy (Vineyard Theatre), Jersey Girls Go to the Park (Urban Empire), and The Way and Stalker (both Naked Angels).