LAURA ALBERT
USA

Writer

Laura Albert won international acclaim with her fiction: Writing as JT LeRoy, she is the author of the novels "Sarah" and "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" and the novella "Harold's End". Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The London Times, Spin, Film Comment, Filmmaker, Interview, I-D, Lemon, and Vogue, among other publications. She wrote the original script for "Gus Van Sant's Elephant" and was its Associate Producer; she was Associate Producer of Asia Argento's adaptation of "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things". Laura also co-scripted Jean-Claude Schlim’s "House Of Boys" and was a writer for the HBO series "Deadwood". In 2012 she served on the jury of the first Brasilia International Film Festival.