Laurie Graff

Laurie Graff, born in New York on May 25, 1956, is an American actress, author, playwright, and publicist. Her career has spanned stage performance, fiction writing, and playwriting across several decades.

Graff's acting career included a Broadway run from 1972 to 1979, during which she played Frenchy in Grease. She also performed the same role on a national tour of the production. Additional stage work included a national tour of Laughter on the 23rd Floor and an off-Broadway production of In the Boom Boom Room. She appears as herself in Mr. Right, a documentary about dating in New York City.

As a fiction writer, Graff published her debut novel, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs, through Red Dress Ink in 2004, and the book became a bestseller reviewed by Publishers Weekly. The following year, she contributed a holiday-themed romance novella to the collection Scenes From a Holiday, also published by Red Dress Ink in 2005. Her second novel, Looking for Mr. Goodfrog, appeared in 2006 and continued the narrative from her first book. In 2008, Broadway Books published The Shiksa Syndrome, a novel centered on a single Jewish woman who attempts to pass as a non-Jewish woman in pursuit of a Jewish partner. The book received reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. That same year, she wrote a preface for a reissue of Marjorie Hillis's Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman, published by 5 Spot.

Graff's playwriting work appears in the anthologies New Monologues for Women by Women and Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1999. As a member of WorkShop Theater Company, she has had several one-act plays produced there, including All My Problems, Telephone Call for Francine Stein, Love in the Time of Recession, and Charlie & Flo, the last of which was also produced at PS NBC.