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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Laura Galt

Laura Galt is a Tony Nominated Broadway co-producer (The Prom), indie film director, producer, casting director, assistant director, actor, educator/teaching artist, speech-language pathologist, and mom based in Austin, TX.  She coordinated extras casting on Aged Out (starring Tye Sheridan of X-Men and Ready Player One) which premiered at SXSW 2018.

She is currently working on the producing/capitalization team for The Outsiders Musical (based on the SE Hinton novel/Francis Ford Coppola film) which is in development for Broadway. (World premiere-La Jolla Playhouse Feb/March 2023.) 

Laura co-conceptualized and produced a SXSW 2018 panel, Hollywood to Broadway: Adapting Films for Stage, and the 2019 SXSW panel, Film & Music: Collaborating on Broadway.

She has served on Zach Theatre's Education Board and is currently involved as a teaching artist and judge for Young Playwrights for Change, a national middle school playwriting competition run by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education in collaboration with Zach Theatre.  Young Playwrights for Change has a goal to produce meaningful conversations that will ripple across our nation to provoke change by sparking conversations and discussion throughout classrooms, schools, and communities.  Laura has also worked in Los Angeles at International Creative Management, as an associate publicist for Nancy Seltzer Public Relations, and was a part of the publicity team for Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Kathy Bates, Placido Domingo, Rob Reiner, and Jonathan Demme's acclaimed film Philadelphia.  Laura was also Julia Louis Dreyfus's assistant and worked for Burt Reynolds Productions.  In college, Laura interned for Senator David Boren.

She enjoys championing education, up and coming filmmakers, theatre, and dance, and has a goal of involving herself and others in stage and screen narratives that have relevant messages and shift representation paradigms for women, youth, and underrepresented populations.

She joined us from her home in Austin, TX. 

Connect with Laura:

Web: www.lauragalt.com and atxrandom.com

Twitter: @mslauragaltInstagram: @atxrandom