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"Who put these fingerints on my imagaintion?"

                                                  ~ Elvis Costello

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Semifinalist -The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference
 

"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”"

                                                         ~ Carrie Fisher

1 min Comedy Clips 

Funny, mother, working with kids

Special Skill: A Blood Curdling Scream

 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

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 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 articles and essays for Collider& TRAVALANCHE on comedy & pop culture.

Podcasting: 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.

"For every ten Jews, god designed one to be crazy to amuse the others. At nine I knew that one was me."

                                                         ~ Mel Brooks

Carrie Fisher,  Steve Martin, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Wendy Wasserstein, Donald Margulies, Dorothy Parker, Betty Comden, Emma Thompson,  Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carole King & Lucille Kallen.

Amber Ruffin, Gilda Radner & Betty White on Game Shows

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)
 

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!
 

"This podcast is wonderful; urbane, self-assured and charming, just like Harrison"
The Astromech Journal 

2nd Appearance

Personal Interviews

How I Met My Genre