Laura Durant
This feat of cognitive endurance and emotional recall is brought to you by a lifetime blown sideways among various bohemian tribes.
During her 40-year career, Laura has logged time as on-air talent for both TV and radio as well as voiceover talent, photographer, writer and producer along with hundreds of stage, film, audiobook and broadcast production credits most recently Raising Buchanan, (staring Rene Auberjonois, Amanda Melby, Cathy Shim, Terence Bernie Hines and M. Emmet Walsh). TV and radio commercials include APS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Delta Dental, and AZ Milk Producers.
Favorite principal stage roles include Equus (Dora), Dangerous Liaisons (Merteuil), Grapes of Wrath (Ma Joad), The Heidi Chronicles (Heidi), The Elephant Man (Mrs. Kendal), Lips Together, Teeth Apart, (Sally), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), Agnes of God (Doctor), Six Degrees of Separation (Kitty).
Laura is also a casting director for nationally broadcast television projects on Discovery ID, Lifetime, NatGeo, SyFy and History Channels along with feature films such as Eminence Hill (starring Lance Henriksen, Barry Corbin, Dominique Swain, and Owen Conway).
Laura is best known to Valley film and stage performers for her website, durantcasting.com, the most trusted and widely used actor resource in metro Phoenix — now celebrating its 20th anniversary!
Laura was named by The Arizona Republic as one of the "Movers & Shakers" among Valley theater women and listed in Arizona Woman magazine as 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.
A heartfelt thank you to: Chris Haines for the polite nudge to rejoin the living ‐ Rosie Close for her stellar insight, instincts and direction — Bruce Dellis, Aaron Ginn-Forsberg, Christopher Bradley and Maria Amorocho Weisbrod for the regular sanity checks — Sue Maggie Hazard, Maureen Watson and Brenda Foley for leading by example — Duane Daniels for writing the Occam's Razor of acting books — Virginia Senior & Nathaniel Burns of Urban Beans and Aside Theatre for nourishing the mind and body. Love & Misses to Forrest Spencer. Dedicated to Doug Durant — with all my heart.
