This year, she directed Julia Izumi's new play MY SIX THERAPISTS (workshop production) for Clubbed Thumb Winterworks, Max Posner's SISTERS ON THE GROUND for NYU Atlantic Acting School, the 29 Hour Equity Reading of Emma Ashford's new musical Heartbeats, Sarah DeLappe's THE WOLVES for Manhattanville University, and workshopped Sarah Galante's new play SWALLOW ME WHOLE.
Additional directing credits including productions of THE SKRIKER by Caryl Churchill (Brooklyn College), IN A WORD by Lauren Yee (WTF/PTP), DETROIT by Lisa D'Amour (IATI/Pigeonholded), and her personal adaptation of THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS (special permission, the Agatha Christie estate). Lauren has also directed the premiere productions of Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin's AMBITION: the Female American Serial Killer Musical, Aeneas Sagar Hemphill's BLACK HOLLOW, Matthew Minnicino's MALEFACTIONS, Haleh Roshan's A PLAY TITLED AFTER THE COLLECTIVE NOUN..., Addie Ulrey's CIRCUS TRICK, and Emily Zemba's ON LOSS AND MICE AND MONSTERS AND LOVE.
Previously, Lauren served as the Associate Director on the commercial run and national tour of Bess Wohl's SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (dir. Rachel Chavkin; Maximum Entertainment; Ars Nova production) and the Associate Director on James + Jerome's INK: A PIECE FOR MUSEUMS (dir. Rachel Chavkin + Annie Tippe; The Metropolitan Museum of Art) as part of The Public's 2018 Under the Radar Festival.
For three years, Lauren was a founder, co-producer, and resident director for PLAYxPLAY which presented the work of 15 playwrights, 23 directors, and over 200 actors in free events for the public. Prior to that, she co-ran and was the lead moderator for the salon series Drinking Plays & Reading Wine, presenting 32 play readings as a company in residence at Jimmy's No. 43. In 2021, she collaborated with social justice arts educator Kilusan Bautista on the community event Come Back Cities for Deaf-Blind children and their families, presented by the Queens Museum and in partnership with NYPADB, SPCUNY, and the Helen Keller National Center. Since 2022, she has served as co-moderator for Music Theatre Factory’s monthly Women’s Roundtables.
Lauren is also a two time Drama League Resident Artist, a Mercury Store Directors Lab alum, a Williamstown Directing Corps alum, a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, a former Playwrights Horizons Directing Fellow, and most recently, a 2023/2024 Clubbed Thumb New Play Directing Fellow. In addition, she has developed and created works for theater companies including Access Theater, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Drama League, The Flea, IATI, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Mercury Store, The New Ohio, and Williamstown Theater Festival amongst others. She has also directed and developed new plays with the MFA playwriting programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and New York University.
In addition, Lauren has a background in Applied Theatre and a decade of experience as a teaching artist for students ages five to sixty. Currently, she is an adjunct instructor at Manhattanville Unviersity teaching "Introduction to Acting for Non-Majors" and "Creative Process". During her Masters program at Brooklyn College, Lauren was a Dean's List recipient, a Buchwald Fellowship awardee, and received a Graduate Teaching Fellowship: teaching two years of Introduction to Acting for undergraduate non-majors at the university.
Education: BFA - NYU/Tisch School of the Arts; MFA - Brooklyn College.
Last updated November 2024
