Laura Coover
Filmmaker & Director of Marketing at Orbital Studios
Laura Coover
Filmmaker & Director of Marketing at Orbital Studios
Laura Coover is a filmmaker leading R&D at Orbital Studios, where she pilots and champions emerging production tools, including 3D Gaussian splatting and AI-accelerated previsualization, work she presented at Cannes Next 2026. Her focus is on putting tools once reserved for studio budgets into the hands of artists at every scale of production. An award-winning director, producer, and actor, Coover produced and directed the SoCal Fire Fund PSA with the Entertainment Industry Foundation, starring Academy Award winner Jamie Ray Newman. It aired nationally on more than $9M in donated ad placement and won a Gold Anthem Award. She produced and starred in the short film As Easy as Closing Your Eyes, winner of Festival Treasure at the Catalina Film Festival, where she also received an Award of Excellence for her performance. Her screen credits include Agent Carter, Castle, NCIS: LA, and the Sundance feature Another Happy Day. Her stage credits include work at Goodman Theatre, Writers' Theatre, Court Theatre, and American Blues Theatre. She is currently developing Luke, her first feature as director. The screenplay was a Finalist at the Dallas International Film Festival and was selected for the Stowe Story Labs Producers Lab.
