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 metro Phoenix 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" .

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.

Laura is an instructor at Scottsdale Community College teaching Advanced Television and Film Acting for the Theater and Performing Arts department.

She is on the Board Governors for the National Assocation for Television & Radio Artists, the advisory board of the Independent Feature Project/Phx and is on the marketing advisory committee for the Herberger Theater Center

Laura shares her continuing adventures with her musician husband Doug and a house full of cats, musical instruments and computers.

You can read more about Laura's film credits on www.imdb.com
To view Laura's resume, click here. (.pdf format)