Laura Giannarelli is a longtime actor in Washington. Among her many credits, she played Sister Aloysius in Doubt for Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre; toured with the Kennedy Center in a play for young people about Russian Jewish immigrants, Dreams in the Golden Country; and played Amalia in Motti Lerner’s Pangs of the Messiah at DC’s Theatre J.
  She is a founding company member at the Washington Stage Guild, where she has appeared in more than 30 plays since 1986, most recently as Lysistrata in G.B. Shaw’s The Apple Cart. Favorite roles in past seasons with the company include Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, Teresa in The Memory of Water, Mademoiselle in An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, Mercy Lott in Humble Boy, and the Woman in The Unexpected Man.  Laura received a Mary Goldwater award for her stage work from DC’s Theatre Lobby.
  A narrator of over 800 books for the Library of Congress, Laura received an Alexander Scourby Award for narrating children's literature. She is celebrating her 32nd year of narrating Talking Books for the LOC.
  In 2005 and again in 2010, Laura read the part of Juliet for McLean Orchestra's A Season of Renaissance combining the music of Berlioz, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky with selections from Romeo and Juliet.  She has performed in and directed readings for The Washington Stage Guild and also directs play readings on an on-going basis for Playwrights’ Forum, working with playwrights to develop their work.
  The vocal coach for Tunarelli Sound and Design, Laura shares her expertise in coaching sessions and helps to guide narrators into giving their best performance as they record their audio demos.