Laura Kirk


Laura Kirk
  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Acting, Acting for the Camera, Improv
She/her

Contact Info

Office:
Murphy Hall, Room 200

Biography

Laura is an award winning filmmaker with credits as producer and actor including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful :Slamdance 2014, Earthwork,  The Only Good Indian: Sundance 2009. Laura Kirk co-wrote and starred in the film Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” and teaches at the University of Kansas for both theater and film.

Education

MFA in Screenwriting, Stephens College

Teaching

Teaching interests:

  • Acting all levels
  • On Camera Acting
  • Directing Actors for the Camera
  • Producing Film
  • Screenwriting
  • Film History
  • Women in Film
  • Improvisation
  • Audition Techniques
  • Children and Drama
  • Women Writers of the Silent Era
  • Neorealism

Selected Publications

Kirk, Laura. 2018. Eve Unsell: Smart Girl in Charge. Books. When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Early Female Screenwriters. McFarland Publishing.
Kirk, Laura. 2018. Sam and Bella Spewak: Marriage of Words. Books. When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Early Female Screenwriters. McFarland Publishing.