About Lauren
Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Lauren brought her Midwestern kindness to the Big Apple in 2009, where she tends to give awkward hugs to doormen. Before she made the move to New York, she spent a lot of money graduating from The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in musical theatre.
Lauren is currently touring with Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom of the Opera She spent 2015 and 2016 on the road with the first national tour of R+H's Cinderella, where she understudied the fairy godmother and Cinderella's stepmother. In 2014, she starred as Betty Haynes in White Christmas at Jenny Wiley Theatre and as Maria in The New Huntington Theatre's inaugural production, The Sound Of Music. In 2011, Lauren was cast in the national tour of My Fair Lady where she understudied Eliza Doolittle. She reprised that role when the same company went across the world to Singapore, where fish paste was abundant but vegetarian food was not.
Since being in New York, Lauren has enjoyed working for great regional theatres, such as North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse and the John W. Engeman Theatre. Her first summer in New York, she played Marjory in the world premiere of Michael O'Flaherty's musical Genesius, The Musical. She has sung the new works of John Andrew Tarbet and Jonathan Matthew Gilbert at The York Theatre and performed in numerous cabarets at The Duplex and 54 Below.
Lauren pursued her other lifelong dream of comedic writing in June 2013 when she took a Sitcom Writing Class at the People's Improv Theatre and completed her first spec script under the wise supervision of seasoned writer Sarit Catz. Lauren is currently working on another spec script and numerous comedic essays, poking fun at her experiences as a musical theatre actor in the city.
She currently resides in Brooklyn where she surprises her neighbors with baked goods and happily brings cans of tuna to stray cats on the street.
Lauren is currently touring with Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom of the Opera She spent 2015 and 2016 on the road with the first national tour of R+H's Cinderella, where she understudied the fairy godmother and Cinderella's stepmother. In 2014, she starred as Betty Haynes in White Christmas at Jenny Wiley Theatre and as Maria in The New Huntington Theatre's inaugural production, The Sound Of Music. In 2011, Lauren was cast in the national tour of My Fair Lady where she understudied Eliza Doolittle. She reprised that role when the same company went across the world to Singapore, where fish paste was abundant but vegetarian food was not.
Since being in New York, Lauren has enjoyed working for great regional theatres, such as North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse and the John W. Engeman Theatre. Her first summer in New York, she played Marjory in the world premiere of Michael O'Flaherty's musical Genesius, The Musical. She has sung the new works of John Andrew Tarbet and Jonathan Matthew Gilbert at The York Theatre and performed in numerous cabarets at The Duplex and 54 Below.
Lauren pursued her other lifelong dream of comedic writing in June 2013 when she took a Sitcom Writing Class at the People's Improv Theatre and completed her first spec script under the wise supervision of seasoned writer Sarit Catz. Lauren is currently working on another spec script and numerous comedic essays, poking fun at her experiences as a musical theatre actor in the city.
She currently resides in Brooklyn where she surprises her neighbors with baked goods and happily brings cans of tuna to stray cats on the street.
© Lauren Lukacek 2018