Lauren grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Therefore, at a very early age, she became very familiar with comedy – she loves her home state but knows all the jokes. Theater: Includes Elaine May’s The Way of All Fish, Jill in Butterflies are Free, Lala in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other appearances include Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (Kennedy Center), and Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe (P.I.T.).

 

Film & TV credits include The Following (Fox) Ten Thousand Saints (2015), the mockumentary The Royal We, and being famously cut as Gilda Radner from the film Chapter 27, starring Jared Leto. As a writer, Lauren has written a few unproduced screenplays, a few published essays, one produced play with the Louisville Review and a Pop Culture column with Forces Of Geek.com. Lauren is currently working on a full-length play about George Burns and Gracie Allen. 

 

Training: MFA: Actors Studio Drama School, The Second City NY Conservatory Program. 

 

Favorite Harrison Ford Movie: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade  (1989)

 

Favorite 80's movie: Clue (1985)

 

 

 

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