Laura Brienza is a New Jersey-based screenwriter. She wrote A Taste of Summer for Hallmark Channel, starring Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter. Nanny State (also known as Other People's Children) won the Lifetime Writers Project at the 2015 New York Television Festival. Old Love New Love had its world premiere at Luna Stage in 2016 and was published by Dramatists Play Service. Her screenplays have placed in the Nicholl and Nashville Film Festivals. She graduated from Georgetown University.