Laura Teiwes was born in Bonn in 1996. At the age of 8 she took acting and musical lessons at Junges Theater Bonn, where she went on to study directing after graduation. In 2014/15 she worked as an assistant director in Bad Godesberg and at the Schlosstheater Neuwied and appeared in »Die Leiden des jungen Werther« and »Die Vermessung der Welt« (directed by Stephanie Jänsch). From 2016 to 2020 she studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. During her studies she appeared in several productions of the Schauspiel Frankfurt. After graduating in June 2020, she began her first engagement at Junges Staatstheater Karlsruhe.
In the autumn of 2023, she completed an internship with Marie Bäumer in the South of France. Since the season 2023/24 Laura Teiwes has been working as a freelance artist and guest at the  Staatstheater Karlsruhe. She also speaks regularly at Studio 7 forArte, Netflix and Amazon and at the synchronous studio The Kitchen in Karlsruhe. She stands for various film projects in front of the camera. In the film Kommt ein Vogel geflogen (Director: Christian Werner), which was released in November 2023, she took on the role of the seventeen-year-old.
Laura Teiwes is touring Germany with her independent theatre collective analyse schmitt kollektiv with the monologue Peter Pan and will stage the play Mädchenschrift at the Badisches Staatstheater in the 24/25 season.