Lauriel Harte Marger's new original primetime drama just went into development, as she simultaneously was brought in as "script doctor" for a studio feature film readying for production. Lauriel continues to consult on several television vehicles and teach TV writing to selective literary clients through her private coaching practice. Prior to the strike she was named executive story editor of the television series, “Nancy Drew”. During the pandemic, her original script won one of the best five comedy scripts of The Writers Guild of America West 2022 competition. Prior to the pandemic shut down, Lauriel served as a writer and then story editor on FOX's "Prodigal Son", seasons one and two, respectively. Again, she simultaneously created and wrote a darkly comedic YA series for Quibi, developed by Character 7 (The Undoing, The Night Manager). And previously, she sold a YA, supernatural drama pilot to YouTube Red with Fake Empire (Gossip Girl, Dynasty). Lauriel is repped by WME, Sugar23, and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP.

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A storyteller at heart, Lauriel came to TV and film by way of songwriting, after dropping out of high school to sign a record deal at WB Records. As an accomplished flautist, she debuted with The New York Philharmonic at age 11, and has also written songs for many non-profit causes, as a Youth Ambassador for the United Nations and World Health Organization. 

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After turning down a scholarship to study neuroscience and anthropology, Lauriel couch-surfed in London while enrolled in a writing program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After living on a futon in Somerville and crashing classes at Harvard, Lauriel sold her first script at 23.

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Lauriel co-founded The ComedyCures Foundation at age 6 along with her Mom, Saranne Rothberg, who was undergoing cancer treatment. Lauriel supports the Bard Prison Initiative, which brings liberal arts education to inmates in upstate New York.