ABOUT LAURA LANE
Laura Lane is a comedian, writer, and performer whose work spans stage, screen, and print. Her humor has appeared in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s. As a journalist, she has contributed to Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone—where she explored motherhood in the music industry—The San Francisco Chronicle, and The New Yorker, and she previously served as a columnist for ESPN and an editor at entertainment magazines.
She co-created and starred in the sketch show This Is Why You’re Single, praised by New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, which became a book translated into seven languages and optioned for television. Her feminist comedy show Femme Fairy Tales enjoyed a year-long run at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and became the book Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling, also optioned for TV. For six years, Laura co-hosted the top-10 comedy podcast This Is Why You’re Single.
As a performer, she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, VH1, E!, and MTV, and on stages across the country including SXSW, The Chicago Sketch Festival, The Stand, The Strand, UCB, the PIT, Broadway Comedy Club, and QED. She also hosted ESPN’s poker show Inside Deal, served as an entertainment correspondent for People magazine and has acted in various short films.
Beyond comedy, Laura founded Rad Studio Space, a creative hub and yoga retreat center in Hudson, NY, where she brings together art, community, and wellness. Fun facts: She coined the term “hatchelorette,” was once Kristen Wiig’s body double, and, in her spare time, teaches yoga.