Laura Darrell

Birth Place: Portland, Maine

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Laura Darrell has acted professionally since the age of 10, appearing on tv shows and films on AMC, SYFY, HULU as well as acclaimed film festivals, including Sundance and Cinequest. Laura has also performed lead roles in theaters across the country and internationally, including Canada and Thailand. She graduated a Magna Cum Laude Scholar from USC (LA), and before that she attended NYU Tisch (both undergrad) as well as the Oxford Shakespeare Intensive at BADA (UK). 

Favorite NY theater credits include Cinderella in Into the Woods at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Encores! The Golden Apple at New York City Center, John Kander and Greg Pierce’s new musical, Kid Victory at the Vineyard Theater (Official Cast Album released) as well as covering the roles of Johanna, Pirelli, and Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd in the highly acclaimed Barrow Street production.

Before that she debuted as Anna in the opening/press cast of Frozen Live, directed by Liesl Tommy. She has performed at regional theaters across the country, including Portland Stage, Signature Theatre in DC, Baltimore Center Stage, Bridge Rep of Boston, MTLosAngeles, Mile Square Theatre, The Public Theatre (ME), Maine Stage Music Theatre, among others, and has sung with orchestras from Portland, Maine (PSO) to Orlando to the southern finger lakes.

With a passion for creating new work, Laura has workshopped many new pieces with companies including Classic Stage Company, Asolo Rep, the Araca Group, Signature, EST, Second Stage, Barrow Group, Hudson Theatreworks, York Theatre Co., NYWIFT Writers Group, and Workshop Theatre Co. She also helped raise money for the Maine Children's Cancer Program with a Maine PBS special called A Very Special Christmas, for which she was nominated for a Boston/New England Emmy Award. 

For more ways to follow Laura, please check out her Instagram: @lauraedarrell and Youtube: youtube.com/thelauradarrell.

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Laura Darrell STAGE CREDITS

[New York]
Encores! Production, 2017
Ensemble

[Off-Broadway]
Off-Broadway Transfer from London Production, 2016
Johanna Barker (Standby) [Replacement]

Beggar Woman (Standby) [Replacement]

Pirelli (Standby) [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
Vineyard Original Off-Broadway Production, 2017
Performer


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Portland Stage to Present THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in February

PORTLAND STAGE delivers the laughs with THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Julie Benko, Andréa Burns, Carolee Carmello & More to Honor Rebecca Luker at Benefit Concert

Symphony Space has announced full details for The Rebecca Luker Songbook: A Benefit Concert, a star-studded concert paying tribute to the beloved Broadway star who passed away in 2020 due to ALS. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Laura Darrell Releases New Book THE PROMOTABILITY GAP

Laura Darrell has announced the release of her new book, The Promotability Gap: The REAL Reasons You're Not Advancing in Your Career and What YOU Can do About It.

Review: The Ever-Elusive SHERLOCK HOLMES at Portland Stage

For its second offering of the season Portland Stage regales its audience with Steven Dietz’s adaptation of William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original play, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. The play, a re-imagined period piece, offers a low-key, witty take on the familiar characters and material with enough twists and turns to satisfy Conan Doyle fans.

DAVID LOUD: FACING THE MUSIC Comes to 92Y as Part of Lyrics & Lyricists

Lyrics and Lyricists 50th anniversary season opens with David Loud: Facing the Music on March 19, 20 and 21, celebrating the career of the renowned Broadway music director. Filled with astonishing stories, collected during his 34 years of working on Broadway, his perspective on musical theater, which includes both the view from the orchestra pit and from the stage, is wry, compassionate, and funny.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival to Present MACBETH

Benjamin Bonenfant joins ASF as the ambitious Macbeth, who commits regicide and usurps the throne of Scotland after three witches lead him to believe he is invincible. As with many of The Bard's stories, bloody battles and tragedy ensue.

A New Reading Series Begins On Monday Night At MTC

Music Theatre of Connecticut award-winning theatre company begins a brand new reading series entitled, New Voices. Featuring five new plays by contemporary playwrights, this series will begin on October 11th at 7pm with the play i by Jeff Talbott. All following plays will also occur on select Monday nights at 7pm.

Zachary Noah Piser and Laura Darrell to Lead Concert Of New Musical PARIS THROUGH THE WINDOW At The Green Room 42

TikTok and Off-Broadway comedian Charles Osborne and composer Leo Hurley will present their new musical Paris Through the Window in concert at The Green Room 42 on Friday October 22nd at 7:00pm.

TIN PAN ALLEY 2 Concert Series Spotlights Women+ Writers

Tin Pan Alley 2, a free concert series featuring new musical theatre works, is pleased to feature a panel of emerging writers on Friday, August 27th, 2021 at 7:30pm ET.

BWW Review: SONGWRITER TRIBUTES Glow Affectionately at 92nd Street Y

Two prolific writers who put the a?oeGreata?? in a?oeThe Great American Songbooka?? were celebrated and explored in the same week at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. In different presentations, there were embraces of the legacies of lyricist E.Y. (a?oeYipa??) Harburg and composer/lyricist Cole Porter.

Complete Casting Announced For Bespoke Plays MEET CUTE

BESPOKE PLAYS - a new play reading series - announces LAURA DARRELL (DIETLAND, Frozen) will lead the first New York public readings of MEET CUTE by CHRISTINE BOYLAN (THE PUNISHER, CLOAK AND DAGGER), on November 3rd and 4th at 7pm at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios. Reservations for these industry presentations may be made by emailing BespokePlays@gmail.com. 

BWW Review: Deconstructing a Marriage in Song: Portland Stage Presents THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS is a touching, edgy, through-composed gem of a work which handles the huge subject of a failed marriage and all its psychological fallout in minimalist terms. The two-character, completely sung book uses a lovely string trio to underscore the introspective monologues of the husband and wife, as they travel in non-linear time through the memories of their marriage.

Portland Stage Presents THE LAST FIVE YEARS By Jason Robert Brown

Portland Stage presents The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown April 30 through May 19. This hit musical by Tony Award-winning lyricist Jason Robert Brown deconstructs a love affair and marriage between an aspiring novelist and a struggling actress over five years. Told almost entirely through song, this piece moves backward and forward through time weaving the beginning and end of a love affair.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Announces Complete Casting For Summer 2019 Season

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival announces complete casting for the 2019 Summer Season.

Compulsions, Secrets, and Ecstatic Polyphony: FUN HOME at Center Stage

A major work of art, in a quintessentially American genre, an important representation of an under-represented group that advances understanding and dialogue, and beautifully produced. Audiences should embrace this production.

Original Cast Members Jake Boyd, Betsy Morgan & Joseph Taylor Return to SWEENEY TODD for Final Weeks

The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street begins its final six weeks at the Barrow Street Theatre starting tonight. Beginning July 31st, returning cast member Jake Boyd (as 'Anthony') and original cast members Betsy Morgan (as 'Pirelli & Beggar Woman') and Joseph Taylor (as 'Tobias') join current cast members

Original Cast Members Jake Boyd, Betsy Morgan & Joseph Taylor Return to SWEENEY TODD for Final Weeks

The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street begins its final six weeks at the Barrow Street Theatre starting tonight. Beginning July 31st, returning cast member Jake Boyd (as "Anthony") and original cast members Betsy Morgan (as "Pirelli & Beggar Woman") and Joseph Taylor (as "Tobias") join current cast members

July's AT THIS PERFORMANCE... To Include Understudies from DEAR EVAN HANSEN, SUMMER, CAROUSEL And More!

Stephen DeAngelis continues his ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys, Understudies and Alternates with its next edition of  AT THIS PERFORMANCE… to be held on Monday, July 16th  at The Green Room 42, Green Fig, Fourth Floor, Yotel NYC, 570 Tenth Avenue (at 42nd Street), New York, NY 10036 at 7 PM.

A Summertime Soiree Heads to The Green Room 42

Eric Michael Sweeney and Matthew A. Stephens present Songs and Stories: A Summertime Soiree, an intimate summer evening of storytelling and music making by five rising stars of Broadway. Singers share stories from their lives and the songs which have inspired them along the way. Whether it is a song from the first Broadway show they saw, a song from their childhood, or a song from their dream role, this outstanding cast weaves together their personal histories with the soundtracks of their lives. Songs and Stories: A Summertime Soiree allows audiences a sneak peek behind the curtain and into the real lives of Broadway's rising stars!

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