Laura Schein

Los Angeles, California

Laura Schein is an award-winning actor/writer/lyricist and the recipient of ASCAP Foundation’s 2023 Lucille & Jack Yellen Award, recognizing outstanding emerging musical-theatre writers.

Laura is the co-creator (book/lyrics) of the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Emojiland, which premiered at NYMF before transferring Off-Broadway in 2020, where she also originated the role of Smize. Emojiland was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, and received nominations from the Drama Desk Awards, Lucille Lortel Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. The show has since enjoyed a growing life beyond New York through regional productions.

For the screen, Laura co-wrote the Kelly Clarkson/Janelle Monáe duet “Unbreakable” for the STX animated feature UglyDolls, shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Awards. She has written lyrics for a wide range of projects, including Disney’s Emmy-nominated stop-motion special Mickey Saves Christmas (Hollywood Music in Media nomination for “Best Song”) and Paramount’s Honor Society. She’s also a lyricist on the musical feature Marriage Material, in development with Fifth Season. Her half-hour comedy pilot script Thrup was a semi-finalist at the 2021 Austin Film Festival. 

Laura is the co-creator (book/lyrics), alongside Ben Zeadman, of the new musical Miss Hysteria, a 2025 Eugene O’Neill NMTC Finalist. The show has been developed through the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz (2023), the Johnny Mercer Foundation Goodspeed Writers Grove (2025), and was selected for the 2026 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals. Laura is a magna cum laude graduate of 

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