Hi! I’m Laila, a writer-actor based in New Hampshire. My mom grew up in Lebanon and my dad grew up in Syria, making me 100% first-generation Arab. I spent five years in Los Angeles falling in love with sitcoms, improv, and indie filmmaking.

Multi-hyphenate life gives me the opportunity to stretch into different mediums: Shakespeare, theater, improv, sitcom, drama, dramedy, voice acting, and radio plays. Throughout these mediums, my guiding star has been the intersectionality of my identity and the joy, humanity, and wonder of being an Arab American woman.

When I’m not creating, you can find me testing new (extremely old irl) Lebanese recipes with my Lebanese dinner club, skiing groomers in the winter and e-biking all summer.

Career Highlights: “The Great Pyramid Scheme” Podcast (Creator, Writer, Actor; audioplay series), “Tribe: the Story of the First Arab American Improv Team” (Writer, Actor; Top 5 Comedies at the Hollywood Fringe Festival), “Farah Rocks” chapter book series by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Wonderbooks Narrator; Orange Sky Audio, Audible), Free Pizza Productions (Co-Founder, Writer, Actor; TV pilot presentations and sketch comedy shorts)

Being a writer lets me create the world as it could be. I believe art is a dialogue. I believe art is opportunity. I believe art is activism. I write for my girls and I write for me.