Gloria Laskowich Reibin

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Mary and Stephen Laskowich, Gloria is now a screenwriter/actor. She fell in love with the theatre at years old when she saw the third grader push the witch into the stove among crepe paper flames in the play "Hansel and Gretel. That's when she became an actress. She followed her dream to New York at 18, studied, acted off-Broadway and summer stock, when the writing bug hit her. She wrote plays until movies hit her. She learned filmmaking. Her short film "Killing Time"" was featured at the first ever MOMA new directors program in NYC. She taught filmmaking to young people in Oklahoma City before venturing to San Francisco to join San Francisco Newsreel. She was co-director film and editor for a film called "The Earth is Our Mother" about the Pitt River Indians.then The film was lost when the documentary company went out of business. Anyone who knows of a copy, please let her know. Her movie making ended when she went to college, achieving a Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in Physics (1978). She returned to acting in small films in 2009 and back to writing screenplays through ScreenwritingU during the last 2 1/2 years. She also studies and works with Jeff Bollow of Embryo Fillms.