(click image to download) | | Laura
Durant's extensive resume includes
film, voice-over work, and press publicity/photography along with nearly two decades
of stage acting.
She is represented by the Ford
Robert Black Agency with a long list of film, broadcast and voice over credits.
Recent film credits include The
Governor (an official selection in the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival), Netherbeast
Incorporated, starring Darrell Hammond, Steve Burns, Dave Foley, Jason
Mewes, Judd Nelson, Amy Davidson and film legend Robert Wagner, and
the award-winning Little Victim, with
co-stars Robert Wagner,
Lori Singer and Brian Ronalds.
She is an Emmy-nominated co-host of the IFP/Phx
television show SCREEN WARS on KAZ-TV.
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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" . Subscribers to the site enjoy exclusive show ticket
giveaways and access to DurantCom's "Starving Actor Discount" (SM).
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. She is proud to be a nominated as Arts Advocate of the Year by the
Arts and Business Council of Greater
Phoenix. Laura is
an instructor at Scottsdale Community College
teaching Advanced Television and Film Acting for the Theater
and Performing Arts department. She also serves as outreach director for Independent
Feature Project/Phx which is dedicated to the advancement of independent filmmaking
in Arizona and is on the board of Governors for the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Laura resides with her musician
husband Doug in the Phoenix Arcadia district along with a house full of cats and
a yard full of weeds.... You
can read more about Laura's film credits on www.imdb.com
To view Laura's resume, click here. (.pdf
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