Laurie Jill Strickland 

Laurie is an award winning professional film, television, and theatre writer/producer with over 17 years of professional experience creating and running shows.

Laurie is a passionate about storytelling in all forms and mediums. She writes, creates, develops compelling projects across mediums from film, television, literature, theatre and is the owner of Laurie's Story Garden.

She has collaborated with so many wonderful artists, networks, companies on so many special projects over the years, some highlights include CBS, NBC, Cartoon Network, HBO, Pele Films, Wonder Films, Silver Sound Studios, Abingdon Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center , Virginia Shakespeare Festival, British Arts Alliance to HRH of Burma, The Dickens Museum of London,The Dickens Family Foundation, Hyde Park Holiday Festival, United Nations Poetry Day, Michelle Obama Arts Coalition, to highlight a few. Complete show list available on request.

Her current theatrical production/adaptation , Everyone’s Carol, sponsored by Macy’s, has played to sold out audiences across the globe, in London, New York, France, Iceland, transforming and inspiring the hearts and souls of audiences by presenting the original classic text and humanitarian message of Charles Dickens’ much beloved “A Christmas Carol” through a culturally diverse, re imagined lens, starring Mr.Austin Pendleton as Scrooge.

It has been staged immersively at the London Dickens House Museum, Hyde Park Rose Garden, Morgan Library and Museum, New York Society Library, Salazar France Arts, Icelandic Dickens Festival, Abingdon Theatre, Irondale Theatre to name a few.

She is currently the executive/creative producer, writer of Journey of an Aesthete Podcast featuring host, Mitch Hampton on I Heart Radio, has numerous private clients she coaches on their stories, consults on numerous shows /scripts, has ghost written for and helped produce projects across film, television, theatre, literature, and new media.

Her commissioned performance poem, “Chrysalis” is being featured in the London celebration of the United Nations’ Day of the Girl Child.

She holds multiple degrees, including an MFA in writing, show running, acting, directing and writing from the National Theater Conservatory as well as, a BA in Theatre, Communications and Performance Studies, from Kennesaw State University, with an emphasis in classical theatre, show creation, writing, adapting literature for scripts, solo performance/storytelling.

In addition to her passion for performing, developing, running and creating shows, Ms. Strickland is a worldwide leader of educational outreach and humanitarian efforts in the arts through the lens of the works of Charles Dickens called “Your Stories Matter”.

Her mission is to tell stories that help heal, uplift, unite and transform the world.

One of the most wonderful things and her favorite things about producing is that you wear many hats on projects as you help develop them as they come to life!

Laurie is the recipient of numerous arts, grants , and humanities awards for her work in film, television, and theatre.

Some highlights include: Macy’s Artist Foundation Grant, Louise Bourgeois Artist Foundation, La Muse Writers and Artists Foundation in France, Royal Burma Society Writing Award, Gehring Foundation, Underwood Foundation, Dickens Museum and The Michelle Obama leaders in the Arts award for her writing.

Laurie has been a writer since she could hold a pen and could make shows in her front yard! She is so grateful for her start in classical theatre companies that taught her so very much and all the writers rooms and projects she apprenticed with.

Laurie's biggest honor is being mom to her fur son Chester the Story Dog!

Mission:

My passion is helping stories to be told. 

I love to nurture them, develop them, help them grow.

For me, the story is always the heart and soul of any project whatever the medium.

I love to shepherd and shape stories into the worlds of television, film, theatre, literature, podcasts and have worked all over the globe with great clients with beautiful projects , doing just that.

As soon as I could hold a pencil , I wrote poems, told stories, read a hundred books a Summer and put on shows in my backyard.

Over the years my passion for storytelling would lead me to be to create handmade adoption books for clients, cookbooks, ghost write, help businesses write their copy and create their visuals, create/write original projects for film, television, theatre, adapt literature for stage and screen, you name it. 

If it about stories, it's my thing.

Maybe you have a book idea, film idea, theatre project, website, memoir, show or want to create a legacy memory book for your family, the possibilities are endless.

We all have stories in our hearts we long to tell, what is yours and how can I help? My only aim is to be of service to the world through stories.