Talent Guide
Laura Hubber
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- Discipline:Writer
- Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2004
Bio
Laura Hubber is a Los Angeles based writer, journalist, and filmmaker. She has been a radio reporter for the BBC World Service for the past ten years, made documentaries in Sarajevo, and worked on a photographic history of the Kurds in northern Iraq. She is a story editor for ABC on the program Switched Up!, where she writes half-hour documentary scripts about teenagers who switch families, and was Story Producer on PBS’s American High. In addition, she has worked as a foreign correspondent in Bosnia and Herzegovina for The San Francisco Chronicle and The European, as well as a Lector and Soros Fellow at Sarajevo University. Her script, Postcard from Sarajevo, was a finalist in UCLA’s DianeThomas screenwriting competition, and she is currently working on a novel. She received her MA in Anthropology/Culture and Media Studies at NYU, her MA in English Literature/Critical Theory at the University of Sussex, and her BA in English Literature from Harvard University.