About

Laura Skokan is working on her MFA in film and supports herself primarily through teaching screenwriting at the university level. She is a filmmaker, sound designer, playwright, graphic novelist, actor, and developing puppeteer (of the stop-motion, sock, and digital varieties). Laura is the producer and editor of podcasts (Let’s CHAT, Beyond 101, Dan Harmon Uptook Nothing! and Neither Should You), music videos (Marina and the Sock Puppets), and short films (that she also wrote and directed—Friendshipping, Room 522,Tulle, Radiant). She is the writer of Sundown in the Old West a stop-motion film that is also currently doing its festival run. She is the co-writer and director of The Fanatics, which has been accepted into the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the California State Media Festival.

Contact: lskokan5115[at}sdsu{dot]edu