Laura Wexler
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Laura Wexler is a writer and producer who creates narrative projects that dramatize little-known American stories.
Her current project is a verbatim docu-play that places audiences inside the courtroom during one of the nation’s most extraordinary untold legal dramas: the 1925 Rhinelander annulment trial.
She previously created a Virtual Reality thriller based on the true story of the first reported UFO abduction, developed a pilot for Amazon Studios, and wrote for the third season of Apple TV’s THE MORNING SHOW. Her nonfiction credits include Fire in a Canebrake, a chronicle of the nation’s last mass lynching, and pieces for the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national publications.
She’s the co-founder of The Stoop Storytelling Series, a Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features “ordinary” people telling the extraordinary true tales of their lives. She presents training in first-person storytelling for businesses and individuals, collaborates with researchers on applied storytelling studies, and serves as a mitigation specialist on legal defense teams.
Laura’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, and the Robert S. Deutsch Foundation.
She lives with her family in Baltimore.
For The New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the infamous 1925 Rhinelander annulment trial, the subject of my docuplay. Leonard and Alice Rhinelander were an American Romeo and Juliet, and for the crime of loving each other, they paid an extraordinary price. Read more.
Reach out at laura [at] laurawexler.com
