Lauren Marcus
Lauren Marcus
MA in Acting, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland · BM in Vocal Performance: Musical Theatre, NYU Tisch
She/Her
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Lauren Marcus is a multihyphenate actor-singer-writer whose work has been seen on stage, screen, and across acclaimed music venues throughout New York City.
As an actor, Lauren made her Broadway debut originating the role of Brooke Lohst in Joe Iconis’s and Joe Tracz’s Be More Chill(Broadway). She is also well-known to New York audiences for originating the role of Meagan in Michael R. Jackson’s White Girl in Danger(Off-Broadway), as well as creating her track in The Jonathan Larson Project(The Orpheum). Other Off-Broadway credits include Sarah Silverman’s The Bedwetter, as well as the new play Disruption at The Signature.
Lauren has worked extensively regionally; some favorite credits include Amy in Company (Barrington Stage, starring Aaron Tveit), Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof (Lyric Opera of Chicago, starring Steven Skybell), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Pittsburgh Public and Sharon Playhouse), Brigid in The Humans (St. Louis Rep), The…Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla Playhouse), Carla in Beatsville (Asolo Rep), Miss Asp in Love in Hate Nation (Two River Theater), Jenn in Pregnancy Pact (Weston Playhouse), and Ermengarde in Hello, Dolly! (Paper Mill Playhouse, starring Tovah Feldshuh). On screen, Lauren has appeared in Law & Order: SVU(NBC) as well as in the film tick, tick…BOOM!(Netflix, 2021), directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. You can hear Lauren on the original cast albums of Be More Chill, White Girl in Danger, The Jonathan Larson Project, and Love in Hate Nation.
As a writer, Lauren is currently co-writing the book for a new musical adaptation of the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun (based on the 1985 Sarah Jessica Parker film) for Lively McCabe Entertainment alongside M. Dickson (How I Met Your Father, Ride or Die, Disenchantment, Superstore). The jukebox musical will be premiering at Pittsburgh Playhouse this fall, in a co-production with Point Park University.
She is a two-time finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, a semifinalist for the O’Neill, a recipient of the 2021 Penn State New Musical Theatre Initiative Commission (alongside Alexander Sage Oyen and James Presson) and was chosen by New York Stage and Film to develop her original television pilot, Honest Living, with their Filmmakers Workshop. She is a 2025 Hermitage Fellow, as well as an inaugural recipient of the LDK Writing Residency.
Lauren’s new musical, Lauren and The Case of The Missing Hair (book/music/lyrics), is a Relentless Award Semifinalist and received a 29-hour developmental reading from Two River Theater as well as a reading at NYC’s legendary Power Station.
As a singer-songwriter, Lauren is an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. She released her debut EP, Never Really Done With You, in 2016. She’s held two sold-out residencies at Rockwood Music Hall, and is currently mid-residency with her 10-person band at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in midtown. Lauren is planning to release her first full-length album this spring.
