(February 23 to April 3, 1983) She played Emma Bredahl in Timothy Mason's play, "In A Northern Landscape," in a Humana Festival production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky with Peggy Cowles (Charlotte Bredahl); Frederic Major (Matthew Bredahl); Reed Birney (Samuel Bredahl); George Kimmel (Anders Thorson); Shawn Dougherty (Per Olafsson); Mark Loftis (Fritz Thatcher); Clint Allen (Mikkel Guntner) and George Sutton (Nils Ogdahl) in the cast. Frazier W. Marsh was director.
In the early 1980s, her first fiancé was murdered in a parking lot. The death had a profound effect on Laura, and she still finds this hard to talk about.
