Discipline: Literature

Laura Wexler

Discipline: Literature
Region: Baltimore, GA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
More: www.laurawexler.com
Laura Wexler is a Baltimore-based writer and producer creating narrative projects across multiple mediums that dramatize little-known true stories. She is the co-creator and executive producer of Dinner Party, a virtual reality (VR) thriller based on the true story of the first nationally known UFO abduction. Dinner Party was selected for Sundance Institute’s 2017 New Frontier Lab, received a 2017 Engadget Alternate Realities grant, and world-premieres at New Frontier at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Dinner Party is the pilot for “Incident,” a VR series dramatizing true-life supernatural mysteries. Other projects in development include Rhinelander, a feature film based on an infamous 1924 racial passing case, and Wish You Were Here, a site-specific immersive audio experience based on the little-known history of maternity homes in the United States. She has developed television for Amazon Studios and is the author of Fire in a Canebrake, a nonfiction book about an unsolved mass lynching. Wexler is the co-founder and co-producer of The Stoop Storytelling Series, a Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features “ordinary” people telling the extraordinary true tales of their lives.

Studios

Wood

Laura Wexler worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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