Resume

Proud Member of AEA

Direct Contact:
973-856-0233
laurensowa@gmail.com

New York/London Theatre
We're Drunk/This is the End Nina The Old Vic Theatre Mike Donahue
The Great Divide Ruth Jordan Metropolitan Playhouse Michael Hardart
The Crucible Mary Warren Sink or Swim Rep Wendy Merritt
Island (reading) Julia New York Shakespeare Exchange Ross Williams
Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana Sam WTE Theatre David A. Miller
Love's Labor's Lost Rosaline New York Neo Classical Ensemble Daniel Spector
Rural (reading) Annie hotINK Festival Fritz Ertl

Regional Theatre
All's Well That Ends Well Diana Alabama Shakespeare Festival Geoffrey Sherman
Romeo and Juliet Juliet Shakespeare Now! David Wheeler
Hamlet Player Queen (u/s Gertrude) Alabama Shakespeare Festival Geoffrey Sherman
Wait Until Dark Susy Seacoast Repertory Theatre Dan Beaulieu
Brigadoon Jean MacLaren The Barnstormers Theatre Michael Grayman
The Pajama Game Babe Seacoast Repertory Theatre John McCluggage
As You Like It Rosalind Seacoast Repertory Theatre John McCluggage

Film, Television, and New Media

Sadie

 Sadie Invasive Image Kurtis Spieler
Passersby Jessica NYU Tisch film Cyrus Toulabi
Still Sarah NYU Tisch film Ben Nelson

Spectral Faces

 Anybody 3 NYU Tisch film Jonah Greenstein

Walk-Up (web series)

 Madison www.walkup.tv Matt Patches
Come to Know Woman The Maine Studios Ian Clough
Bob V. Society Kate NYU Tisch film David Pring-Mill
Gray Area Madison A2A Productions George Tunis
My Sweet Revenge Elizabeth Rough Water Films John DiThomas

Training

New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts – BFA, Drama with Honors 

The Meisner Extension:                                                 

Technique – Vicki Hart                                        
Voice and Speech – Donna Germaine                     
Movement – Nate Flower                                      
Mask – Per Brahe                                                
Accents and Dialects – John VanWyden

The Classical Studio:

Verse – Louis Scheeder, Tim Carroll
Voice and Speech – Donna Germaine
Stage Combat – David Brimmer
Alexander Technique – Greg Seel

Recent Workshops: Tim Carroll, The Factory – text; Kevin Spacey – monologues, Frantic Assembly – movement work

Skills

Dance – jazz, lyrical, tap, ballet, hip-hop, ballroom – 15+ years: Study at BDC, Steps, Jeannette Neil Dance Studio

Yoga – Vinyasa, Bikram, Ashtanga – Practice at Yoga to the People

Singing – legit soprano, belt to C - Study with Allison Leyton-Brown, Trained in Music Performance with John Ruocco

Voice Talent – commercial, narration, e-learning - Training with Edge Studios in voice-over

Awards
2008 Spotlight AWARD Best Actress in a Play (Susy, Wait Until Dark)
2007 Spotlight Nomination: Best Actress in a Play (Rosalind, As You Like It)
Outstanding Achievement in Studio: The Meisner Extension (NYU)
Outstanding Achievement in Studio: The Classical Studio (NYU)
Outstanding Dedication to the Art of Dance (Hempfield)