Laura Colella is the Writer/Director/Editor for Tax Day and for Stay Until Tomorrow. With the latter project, she was a Sundance Institute Directing and Screenwriting Fellow. For the film’s production, Sundance arranged for extensive donations of equipment and services. Stay Until Tomorrow has been screened at over thirty festivals and venues internationally, winning five awards. Laura's first feature Tax Day and her short film Statuary have also extensively toured festivals and venues internationally, winning a total of 13 awards. Passion River Films is distributing both the Stay Until Tomorrow and Tax Day/Statuary DVDs.

Laura is a graduate of Harvard College, and two films she made as an undergraduate also played at over a dozen festivals, winning a handful of awards. Laura has received grants and fellowships from the LEF Foundation, the Sundance Institute, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Harvard University, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She teaches Film Production and Directing part-time at the Rhode Island School of Design, and does freelance film/video work. Her current projects are a new narrative feature project and a half-hour music video in collaboration with composer Alec K. Redfearn.