Lauren is an award-winning playwright, fiction writer, and screenwriter crafting sharp, character-driven stories about women pushing against the systems that attempt to contain, and often destroy them. She began her training at 18 at Stella Adler/NYU Tisch. At 21, she co-founded a site-specific theatre company dedicated to large-scale, immersive productions staged in parks, historic homes, and bars, including Three Sisters in Prospect Park’s Lefferts Historic House. This early commitment to reimagining space and audience continues to inform her multidisciplinary approach to storytelling.
A Kennedy Center Award–winning playwright and the recipient of a 2020 Arkansas Arts Council Screenwriting Fellowship, her plays have been produced in Chicago and New York and recognized by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Woodward/Newman Award, the Local Lab, and others. She is the co-creator of the sci-fi/horror anthology podcast FEMME FUTURE PERFECT and is currently developing television projects across genres. As a screenwriter, she was also a 2024 Austin Film Festival Teleplay Finalist and a three-time Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Finalist. She has fiction publications in Tiny Molecules, Flash Fiction Online, and The Future Fire and is recent McCormack Writing Center (fka Tin House) workshop alumna.
Alongside her writing, Lauren has sustained a wide-ranging theatrical practice that includes collaborative play festivals, youth-led work, and play workshopping groups in several cities. Her work has been developed in residence across Nebraska, New York, and South Carolina, where she has written music, performed, and co-produced projects ranging from a bar-based rock band Shakespeare company to a live, local late-night show. Her interdisciplinary projects include devised and site-based work such as a play staged in a river, a choose-your-own-adventure performance, a Georgia O’Keeffe–inspired piece culminating in a large-scale painting, and other hybrid forms that blur boundaries between performance, installation, and audience participation.
Originally from Texas, she is drawn to fierce young women who tend to fall through the narrative cracks, especially Southern ones. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Arkansas.
