Lauren
Milberger
SAG-AFTRA AEA
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Actor. Writer. Screenwriter. Pop-Culture Talking Head
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reel & clips
"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
~ Mike Nichols
Reel
The Following (Fox)
1 min Comedy Clips
Funny, mother, working with kids
Special Skill: A Blood Curdling Scream
You can check out more of Lauren's review hosting here.
Various clips from CNN Original, "TV On The Edge - Dan Quayle vs Murphy Brown
NOW STREAMING ON MAX
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Voice-Over
Bio
"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”"
~ Carrie Fisher
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... reports of her being found in a hollowed-out Television set in Victoria Station are unsubstantiated.
As an actor: Lauren has performed from H.E.R.E. to the Kennedy Center. Favorite roles include Joan in Elaine May's The Way of All Fish, Jill in Butterflies Are Free, and Lala in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other appearances include Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (Kennedy Center), Tango 'Till They're Sore (The Flea Theater), and Keanu Reeves' Saves the Universe (P.I.T.). Film & TV credits include The Following (Fox), Ten Thousand Saints (Ethan Hawke), As They Made Us (Candice Bergen), the mockumentary The Royal We, and being famously cut as Gilda Radner from Chapter 27.
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Training: MFA: Actors Studio Drama School.
The Second City NY Conservatory Program
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As a writer: Lauren is a published essayist on comedy and pop culture, including an essay on Lenny Bruce in the award-winning book
The Magnificent, Magical, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
from Abrams Books and Printworks.
As a playwright, her one-act The Onion: First Dates was mounted as part of The Southern Slam Festival at the Warehouse Theater, SC (published in The Louisville Review). Her full-length play about George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen, was a Semifinalist for The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference, Heiress Production and a finalist for The Orlando Shakespeare Playfest & SheNYC Competitions. Highlights of these are featured in the podcast, The Raconteurs with Lauren as Gracie Allen, and narrated by Stephen Tobolowsky
Recently, Lauren's teleplay Time Travel Inc. was a semifinalist for the prestigious Writers Lab. ​And her rom-com People Will Say We're In Love was selected as a 2025 Stowe Story Lab Fellow, a Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival - less than 20% of 11K submissions, and a semifinalist for We Screenplay & Final Draft's Big Break (still pending) contest (1 of 21 semifinalists in the comedy category.
INDUSTRY READ REQUESTS ONLY.
Podcasting / Talking head: Currently, Lauren is the co-host of FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast & previously of Fordcast: A Harrison Ford Podcast. Both can be found on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify & wherever you listen to podcasts. She has interviewed artists such as Emmy Winner Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Tony Winner Joanna Gleason, the Cast/Writers of Murphy Brown, & alumni from both Marvel to Lucas Films.
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Lauren was also featured in the
CNN original doc, TV On The Edge -
Lauren is an advocate for invisible disabilities like neurodiversity and autoimmune issues - you can read more about her story in the HARNESS Magazine article: Resilience, Legacy, and Laughter: A Conversation with Lauren Milberger.
Screenplays & Plays Upon Request
"Who put these fingerints on my imagaintion?"
~ Elvis Costello
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"The best researched and written article I’ve ever read about Gracie Allen."
Frank Cullen, American Vaudeville Museum
"I'm not a capitalist, I'm a creativist. I make money to make things, I don't make things to make money."
~ Eddie Izzard
Podcasting
I love podcasting! And as you can see, I love podcasting about pop-culture. Take a look below at the podcasts I host and produce, but also the fun shows I've guested on! Can't decide where to start!? Click here for a list of my favorites!
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Scenes from Lauren's Eugene O'Neill Conference semi-finalist play "The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen" with Lauren as Gracie Allen, Kevin Sebastian (Mrs. Maisel) as George Burns and Narrated
by Stephen Tobolowsky
(Groundhog Day; The Goldbergs)
BONUS Interview with Lauren conducted by journalist Trav S.D regarding Burns and Allen's centennial.
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Guests include Diane English
(Series Creator),
The writers & actors from
Grant Shaud (Miles), Joe Regalbuto (Frank) Faith Ford (Corky) & Guest stars Emmy Winning The West Wing star Richard Schiff &
Tony winner Joanna Gleason!
We watched all of Harrison Ford's films in order... so you don't have to! Guests include writers from Lucas Films, Supergirl, and Handmaids Tale, as well as actors from Comedy Bang! Bang!, Marvel TV & USA's The Sinner!
Guest
Podcasting
2nd Appearance of 3
Fav List
PodcastinG
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My Favorite interviews include Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Joanna Gleason (Tony Winner)
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I loved talking about:
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Diversity & Inclusivity in the 1990s To Today (A panel discussion)
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Women of the '80s and '90s News/Pop-Culture with Sarah Marshall of You're Wrong About & You Are Good.
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And I had a blast guesting on podcasts about The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (with Kevin Pollak), Law & Order: SVU and & You Are Good: Clue The Movie.
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My favorite Murphy Brown recap episodes (so hard to pick!) are 2.07: Whose Garbage Is It Anyway?, 1.22 The Morning Show (Season 1 Finale) & 1.13 Soul Man (Topic: Men's Clubs).
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In my first podcast (2016-2018) I got to talk about some great Harrison Ford movies like Indiana Jones & Star Wars: Return Of the Jedi
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