A native Utica New Yorker, Laura grew up playing violin and piano in orchestras and rock bands. After her undergraduate years, she caught the travel bug and worked as an English language teacher in Taiwan, a dance instructor in Havana, Cuba, a figure skater in France and Germany, and owned a small business in Denver, CO. She moved to New York City in 2005, immersing herself in the world of sound and technology via NYU. In 2009, Laura opened Chrystie Street Sound with then partner Scott Anderson. Her location sound recording and post-production sound work has been featured in Sundance, Tribeca, South by Southwest, Slamdance Film Festivals, VH1, PBS, Comedy Central and more. She taught sound at the Tisch Graduate Film School for three years, was faculty at NYU’s Steinhardt Graduate Music Technology program for four, and worked at lean and mean companies Blastwave FX and Pro Sound Effects for five. She holds a master’s degree in Music Technology from NYU, at that time focusing on computer music controller design.
