LAURA SEAY
Laura Seay is an award-winning director, actor, and writer whose films have been featured in Film Threat, MovieMaker Magazine, and screened at top-tier and Oscar-qualifying festivals worldwide. As a performer, she has worked with Steven Soderbergh (Command Z), Judd Apatow (Superbad), and Marvel (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and performed stand-up at The Comedy Store and the New York Comedy Festival. A recent fellow of the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative, she brings an actor’s instinct and a director’s precision to stories that balance humor, humanity, and emotional truth.
Her latest short, The Coupon—a darkly comic, Kafkaesque romp she also stars in—won Best Comedy and Best Short awards at Fantastic Fest, FilmQuest, Telluride Horror Show, Vienna’s Slash, Atlanta Underground, Italy’s ToHorror, and the Big Apple Film Festival. The Baldwin Archives was named one of Awards Daily’s “25 Best Shorts at HollyShorts” and toured widely through LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC festivals including Outfest and NewFest. Her directorial debut, Speak, premiered at the Nantucket Film Festival as the only open-submission short programmed, raised funds for Los Angeles’ Good Shepherd Shelter.
Seay has shadowed on FBI and Dr. Odyssey, trained via Sundance Collab’s Directing for Television Intensive with Dan Attias (The Wire, Homeland, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and was a semifinalist for the Shonda Rhimes/SeriesFest Directing Program. An active member of the Alliance of Women Directors, she brings an actor’s focus and sensibility with a precise visual language to character-driven stories, navigating genre blending and tonal shifts that balance a wry humor with grounded, emotionally resonant storytelling. She is charting a clear path into episodic television while continuing to expand her independent slate.
︎ The Coupon: Short ︎
︎ Directing Reel ︎
︎imeo