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SAG-AFTRA AEA




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REEL & Video
Reel
The Following (Fox)
One Dramatic & One Comedic Scene
FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast Ep #1
Live from the WPIX Studios!
Bio
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), the mockumentary The Royal We, and being famously cut as Gilda Radner from the Chapter 27,
starring Jared Leto.
As a writer: Lauren wrote the one-act The Onion: First Dates, which was mounted as part of The Southern Slam Festival at the Warehouse Theater, SC, (published in The Louisville Review) which she also appeared in. Lauren is currently working on a full-length play about George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen (Semifinalist 2018 The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference, Semifinalist Heiress Production, finalist The Orlando Shakespeare Playfest & Webroadway Competition) and recently appeared in an industry reading of act one, as Gracie Allen. Lauren is also a published essayist on Burns & Allen (for the New England Vintage Film Soc) and has also written for Forcesofgeek.com & TRAVALANCHE on comedy & pop culture.
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, Sound Cloud, Stitcher Radio, & wherever you listen to podcasts. She has interviewed artists such as Emmy Winner Richard Schiff (The West Wing), The Cast/Writers of Murphy Brown, & alumni from both Marvel to Lucas Films.
Training: MFA: Actors Studio Drama School.
The Second City NY Conservatory Program
"For every ten Jews, god designed one to be crazy to amuse the others. At nine I knew that one was me."
~ Mel Brooks

Acting
Influences
Allison Janney, Madeline Kahn, Christine Baranski, Bette Midler, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Emma Thompson
Anne Bancroft, Candice Bergen, Shirley MacLaine & Cristine Rose.
Writing
Aaron Sorkin, Tina Fey, Diane English, Steven Moffat, Bonnie Hunt, Steve Martin, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Wendy Wasserstein, Donald Margulies, Dorothy Parker, Betty Comden, Emma Thompson, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carrie Fisher, Carole King & Lucille Kallen.
"Who put these fingerints on my imagaintion?"
~ Elvis Costello
Published * Essays * ColumnS/reviews * plays

"The best researched and written article I’ve ever read about Gracie Allen."
Frank Cullen, American Vaudeville Museum
"I'm not a capitalism, 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!
Guests include Diane English (Series Creator),
The writer... & actors from
Grant Shaud (Miles), Joe Regalbuto (Frank) & Guest stars Emmy Winning The West Wing Star Richard Schiff &
Tony winner Joanna Gleason!
Subscribe now on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, & wherever you listen to podcasts!
We watched all of Harrison Ford's films in order... so you don't have to! Guests include writers from Lucas Films and Supergirl, as well as actors from Comedy Bang! Bang!, Marvel TV & USA's The Sinner!
"This podcast is wonderful; urbane, self-assured and charming, just like Harrison"
The Astromech Journal
Trailer New Podcast Special: TV Fantasy Draft
Podcasting
Guest

PodcastinG
Fav List
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My Favorite interview include Richard Schiff (The West Wing), Joanna Gleason (Tony Winner) & Diane English (Creator Murphy Brown)
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I loved talking about& Diversity & Inclusivity in the 1990s To Today (A panel discussion) & Women In Media History with Media Historian Jacqui Shine
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And I had a blast guesting on podcasts about Law & Order: SVU and Back To The Future III
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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 (Season1 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