Lara is currently co-writing, with Emily Rhodes, an original period television series for Constantin Television and an and an ambitious, emotional feature film funded by Ffilm Cymru set in the mining community with fantastical elements. Lara has recently completed Channel 4’s inaugural West and South West Writer’s Scheme in collaboration with BFI Network.
Lara’s first audio drama M IS FOR MUSSELS was commissioned as part of BBC Radio 3’s The A-Z of Things series, a sonically innovative drama series pairing writers and sound designers. Lara won the Torc Award for Drama Sound at the Celtic Media Festival, and was shortlisted for the Imison Award at the 2023 BBC Audio Drama Awards. This was followed by her short drama Exhale on Radio 4. Lara was previously one of BBC Writersroom Cornish Voices.
Previous projects include co-writing a feature-length adaptation of a German language YA novel for Bavaria Fiction and Netflix and participating in BFI-financed writer’s room for ALIEN8ED led by Simon J. Ashford, produced by Phillippa Giles. Lara has developed original series with Red Planet and Sprout.
In 2020 Lara was selected as one of eight residents on the CanneSeries Institute, a 5-week writers residency run by University of Côte d’Azur and Serial Eyes in partnership with Vivendi/Canal+ Group International. Her project was selected as the winner.
Lara’s script, THE PIRATE WIFE is set in 1800’s South China Sea, based on a real-life individual “Cheng I Sao” (Wife of Cheng I), and tells the remarkable tale of one of the most successful pirates of all time. The script was shortlisted for the C21 Drama Series Script Competition, amongst 21 scripts and reached the final Top 10 of Final Draft’s Big Break competition.
Lara has had a number of short plays produced by new writing theatres across London. Plays include NO SENSE OF AN ENDING performed at The Old Red Lion, TAMPON TERROR selected for Theatre 503 Rapid Write Response, and A LION’S LIFE performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Lara graduated from London College of Communication (LCC) MA Screenwriting with a first class degree. She was LCC’s Graduate Artist in Residence 2019, where she explored immersive storytelling and produced and wrote a VR experience, FRACTUS. She has also worked extensively in the field of VR writing content for museums and exhibitions both in the UK and across the world.
Lara is a disabled writer and holds both UK and US passports.