Background
Laura Cahill was born on August 28. She was born and grew up in northern New Jersey.
2015
Laura Cahill
Laura Cahill
2017
Brett Goldstein
2018
Grace Goldstein
Uma Thurman
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Laura Cahill was born on August 28. She was born and grew up in northern New Jersey.
Laura Cahill's experiences had been translated into comic plays about twenty-something singles trying to wrench meaning from mundane lives. Her best-known work, Hysterical Blindness, was produced as a feature film in 2002 after a lengthy gestation as a play, and its themes of loneliness and desperation echo throughout her other works as well.
Hysterical Blindness is a story about Debby and Beth. They are working single women who spend their spare time together in bars, looking for men. Beth neglects her ten-year-old daughter, and Debby sometimes quarrels with her mother, with whom she shares a home. The drama follows Debby as she seeks a meaningful relationship with a patently disinterested fellow she has met at the local bar. Her desperation for his approval becomes increasingly pathetic as the story progresses, and ironically it is her mother who finally achieves a lasting and satisfying romance. Laura Cahill first wrote the work as a play and then adapted it to screen herself at the urging of actress Uma Thurman, who co-produced the feature film and starred in it as Debby. Laura originally intended Hysterical Blindness to be a comedy. As adapted to film, however, the story has a disturbing quality as well as subtle humor. Hysterical Blindness was the centerpiece feature at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Laura Cahill is also the author of Mercy, a play in which four characters try to get at life's essential meaning while having dinner in a cluttered urban apartment. The central character is Sarah. She is a documentary filmmaker, who calls on the others, mostly fruitlessly, to seek contentment, or at least a gelato and a stroll in the park.
In the wake of Hysterical Blindness, Laura signed a three-picture contract with Miramax Films. Also, Laura Cahill wrote the pilot and six episodes of the television series Pornopolis for the Independent Film Channel, wrote pilots for the Home Box Office, Touchstone, Paramount, and Warner Bros. She adapted the screenplays for What Matters Most, The Down Low, and B Mothe, and wrote the original screenplays Witness Protection and Boston Strangler.
Laura Cahill wrote the stage play Hysterical Blindness and adapted it into the screenplay for the film of the same name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. For this work, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for a Writers Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special. Her stage plays have been produced at Vineyard Theater, New Harmony Project, Naked Angels, and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
She wrote the pilot and six episodes of the television series Pornopolis for the Independent Film Channel, and she has also written pilots for the Home Box Office, Touchstone, Paramount, and Warner Bros. She adapted the screenplays for What Matters Most, The Down Low and B Mother, and wrote the original screenplays Witness Protection, and Boston Strangler.
Quotations: "I'm always fascinated with what people mean to say what comes out of their mouth, and what people say in sort of boring, everyday life. These characters are people that I grew up in New Jersey. They're not real people or any particular people, but they're just sort of the kind of people. They are sort of me, and they are my friends."
Laura Cahill married Brett Goldstein on September 20, 1998. They have a daughter, Grace.
