Laramie Dennis
Laramie Dennis is a writer/director intent on deploying sly humor, deft subtext, and "a knack for lively, naturalistic dialogue" in her exploration of complex women and other underrepresented characters. She got her start in NYC directing Off-Off-Broadway plays, and her background in theater keenly informs her moviemaking. She prioritizes close collaboration with her actors, workshopping and rehearsing scripts well in advance of shooting, and borrowing details from her actors' lives to enrich their characters. Where in the Hell, an offbeat road movie completed in 2024, marks her feature film debut. Life on sMars, a feature project inspired by a real-life NASA experiment, earned her a spot at THROUGH HER LENS: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, along with a development grant from The Tribeca Film Institute. Her movies have been programmed at festivals including NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the St. Louis Int'l Film Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the Poppy Jasper Int'l Film Festival, where she won Best Comedy Feature and the Audience Award for Best Local Film (SoCal). She has a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MFA from USC.
