With over two decades of experience in the animation industry, Laura brings a unique blend of creative and technical expertise to her role as Co-Director. From her early days working across departments like Modeling, Texturing, Animation, FX, Lighting, and Compositing, to a decade of leadership roles, she’s honed an exceptional ability to communicate vision clearly and efficiently across all disciplines. Her deep understanding of the animation pipeline allows her to navigate complex challenges with creativity and adaptability, empowering teams to produce their best work. The breadth of her experience allows her to approach every scene holistically, envisioning composition, performance, colour, light, music, dialogue, and effects in parallel all to create maximum audience impact. 

Passionate about animation’s power to connect people worldwide, Laura is inspired by bold, innovative projects that push boundaries in visual style and storytelling—works like Spider-Verse, Nimona, Wendell & Wild and Spirited Away. She gravitates toward stories with unpredictable twists, multidimensional characters, and themes that celebrate underdogs, misfits with heart, and anything delightfully strange.

Beyond her directorial work, Laura is committed to giving back to the animation community. She’s shared her work at events like the Spark Animation Festival and Girls in S.T.E.A.M. at Science World, mentored emerging talent through Women In Animation (W.I.A.), and supported aspiring artists in leadership roles.

Her office holds a framed tweet from filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt, who made a wonderfully weird comment about a photo of her in a Halloween costume inspired by one of his characters—just one of many reminders of her enduring love for animation and the creative (and sometimes wonderfully weird) people behind it.

As Co-Director, her credits include Toto (2021–2023) and The Addams Family 2 (2019–2021). Previous roles include Head of Lighting & Compositing for The Addams Family (2017–2019) and supervisory positions on projects like Trollhunters (2016–2017) and Sausage Party (2016). Currently, she is based in Vancouver, BC, having a lovely time working with the fantastically talented crew at Netflix Animation Studios.