Growing up in small-town Virginia, Laura Hunter Drago was a shy child who found her voice through storytelling. A 2025 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow and alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Drago writes fantasies and thrillers that center women. She won the Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award for her series The Crime at Camp Ashwood and the WeScreenplay Short Script Lab for her script Nuclearette. Drago also produced stage-to-screen feature film To the New Girl, Coven Film Festival runner-up short The Echo and audio fiction series St. Mary’s School (for Children with the Stigmata).