Lauren Robert
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PLAYWRIGHT, ACTOR, SINGER, SONGWRITER
Lauren Robert is a professional actress, singer, songwriter and playwright. She is a former Epic Records artist and her original songs have been produced by Stephen Bray (The Color Purple, Madonna) and Robert Nemiroff (Raisin). Lauren spent years recording and performing on the road at clubs, festivals and on national theatrical tours. Her own musicals include .22 Caliber Mouth originally produced by The Bloomington Playwrights Project (the first musical ever produced by the company). It went on to be developed via The O’Neill Musical Theater Conference (2004). At the conference, Lauren won the Georgia Bogardus- Holof Award, for best lyrics in a musical.
Lauren was offered a deal by Maureen Oxley, Artistic Director of The Toronto Film Festival to produce .22 Caliber Mouth as a film. At the same time, Premiers NYC, a theater company devoted to development of new musical works by American writers, commissioned .22 Caliber Mouth, as its 2006 workshop production under the direction of Diane Paulus ( Broadway’s Hair (2009),The Donkey Show, Eli’s Comin’) at the Ohio Theatre. It was also produced as a reading at The 45th Street Theater in New York City, with additional music and lyrics, directed by John Henry Davis (HBO’s OZ).
Other original works include Making It, produced by the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington and a new musical, called The Blacksnake. Graduate of New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has played such roles as Lady Macbeth, Martha (Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Catherine (Ms. Reardon drinks A little) Rizzo (Grease) and many others. She is the voice of “Moments in Congress” on NPR Radio and has numerous jingles and voice-overs on a variety of television and radio stations throughout the country.