(click image to download) | | Laura
Durant's extensive resume
includes film, voice-over work, and press publicity/photography along with nearly
two decades of stage acting.
She is represented by the Ford
Robert Black Agency with a long list of film, broadcast and voice over credits.
Recent film credits include The
Governor (an official selection in the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival), Netherbeast
Incorporated, starring Darrell Hammond, Steve Burns, Dave Foley, Jason
Mewes, Judd Nelson, Amy Davidson and film legend Robert Wagner, and
the award-winning Little Victim, with
co-stars Robert Wagner,
Lori Singer and Brian Ronalds.
She is an Emmy-nominated co-host of the IFP/Phx
television show SCREEN WARS on KAZ-TV.
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Laura
is the driving force behind Durant
Communications, providing promotional support to actors and
producers in Phoenix, AZ since 1997 but is probably
best known to thousands of cybercitizens as "DurantCom". Her website,
www.durantcom.com, is the
most widely used actor resource in Arizona and is listed Acting
Is Everything: An Actor's Guide for a Successful Career in Los Angeles.
The DurantCom site posts
local audition notices as well as distributing them to an ever-growing
listserve. Some of the
direct services she offers to actors are headshot
photography and the popular actor marketing consultation known
as "The Actors
Toolbox" . Subscribers to the site enjoy exclusive show ticket
giveaways and access to DurantCom's "Starving Actor Discount" (TM).
Echo
magazine film and stage critic Neil Cohen referred
to her as a "Renaissance woman" and her myriad of talents were recently highlighted
in a profile by Phoenix
Downtown magazine Laura
was named by The Arizona Republic as one of the "Movers & Shakers"
among Valley theater women. A joint feature story by Arizona Woman magazine/The
Arizona Republic business page named her among the Valley's "Women
in Film". The AriZoni Awards organization
honored Laura with a Distinguished Service Award for her efforts in keeping the
Valley theater community connected. Most recently, an opinion poll conducted by
Arizona Business Magazine
listed DurantCom among the top ten marketing/internet companies in the state.
She is proud to be a nominated as Arts Advocate of the Year by the Arts
and Business Council of Greater Phoenix. Laura
is an instructor at Scottsdale Community
College teaching Advanced Television and Film Acting for the Theater
and Performing Arts department. She also serves as outreach director for Independent
Feature Project/Phx which is dedicated to the advancement of independent filmmaking
in Arizona and is on the board of Governors for the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Laura resides with her musician
husband Doug in the Phoenix Arcadia district along with a house full of cats and
a yard full of weeds.... You
can read more about Laura's film credits on www.imdb.com
To view Laura's on line resume, click here. |
