Director/Producer/Writer Laurie Coyle
Director/Producer/Writer Laurie Coyle has worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on numerous documentaries, including Culture Clash’s experimental comedy Columbus on Trial, Bill Moyer’s Circle of Recovery, WGBH’s Straight Talk, and Lourdes Portillo’s La Ofrenda – the Days of the Dead. Coyle teamed up with Rick Tejada-Flores on The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle, for which she was Chief Archival Researcher and Associate Producer. She served as Associate Producer for The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It and the AMERICAN MASTERS special Ralph Ellison: An American Journey. Coyle directed the documentary short Fenix Rising, and co-authored “Women at Farah, an Unfinished Story” in Women and Power in American History (Prentiss Hall).