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Laura Kirk
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Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and …
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Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin. Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors, Verizon, Wrangler Jeans, Jeep and Dr. Pepper. Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film. Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming "When Women Wrote Hollywood" (Forthcoming McFarland).
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BODY OF WORK
Laura Kirk's Filmography
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The Stylist
as Frankie
Parallel Chords
as Mae Archer
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
as Self
The Vetting
The Tree
as Marge McMillan
American Honey
as Laura
No Poster
No Margrettes
as Josie
The Sublime and Beautiful
Earthwork
as Janis Herd
The Only Good Indian
as Miss Harris
Bunker Hill
as Halle
Murder Without Conviction
as Alberta Talley
The Time Machine
as Flower Seller
Lisa Picard Is Famous
as Lisa Picard
At First Sight
as Betsy Ernst
Too Tired to Die
as Streetwalker #2