Laura Hodos is a three-time Carbonell Award nominee for her work in Ruthless! at the Hollywood Playhouse, She Loves Me with the Caldwell Theatre Company and Bombshells at Actors’ Playhouse.  Recently, Laura was seen in the new Frank Wildhorn musical, Bonnie and Clyde at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL and in the premiere production of Jolson at the Winter Garden at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, FL and the remount in Los Angeles at the historic El Portal Theatre. She has performed all 27 songs as the title character in Always, Patsy Cline at the Penobscot Theatre in Bangor Maine and the Titusville Playhouse in FL. Laura has also been seen haunting American Stage Theatre in their production of Noël Coward’s brilliant comedy, Blithe Spirit, as Elvira, and returned to St. Pete as Sheila in Hair (winner of  a “Best of the Bay” award) and Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee with American Stage in the Park.

Laura is a frequent performer with the Orlando Philharmonic

Orchestra, first as Marian (the Librarian) in The Music Man (a role she reprised with the Jacksonville Symphony), then with  talented Michael Andrew in Fly Me To The Moon.  She was  also the Beggar Woman in OPO’s production of Sweeney Todd, co-starring Faith Prince and Davis Gaines. 

Regionally, Laura has performed with Seaside Music Theater’s productions of Nine as the wronged wife Luisa, and as the noisy upstairs neighbor Eunice in A Streetcar Named Desire. She went to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre to collaborate with Martin Charnin, Andrea McArdle and Shelly Burch on Charnin’s new show, Love Is Love.  

Laura has created seven solo cabaret shows:  Noël & Cole, Mad For Menken, Life Upon the Wicked Stage: The Music of Jerome Kern, Hero Worship and Hero Worship II: Songs I’ve Only Attempted in My Shower, and

most recently, Never Gonna Get It: Songs From the Roles I’ll Never Play, the Parts I Didn’t Get, and the Shows That Passed Me By!  These (along with other duo and group cabaret shows) have been performed at the Winter Park Playhouse, the Orlando Cabaret Festival, freeFall Theatre Company, Orlando Theatre Project, Jester Theatre Company, don’t tell mama (NYC), the Citrus Club of Orlando, as well as benefits and private parties from Maine to Miami! 

Laura was also thrilled to be first performer to create a solo cabaret show for Walt Disney World as a part of the Disney Event Group and Disney Institute.

A New Jersey native, Laura spent just over a year singing in Tokyo, Japan, has performed at Lincoln Center with Donna Murphy, and at Radio City with Maureen McGovern.  A graduate of Dickinson College, where she was the recipient of the Gould Memorial Drama Prize (PA) and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where she received the Florence Bower Vocal Prize (NYC).

Laura makes her home in Orlando, FL with her husband George Hamrah and cats, Oscar and  Percy. Laura is proud member of Actors' Equity Association.