Lauren Ruff

Originally from Oregon, Lauren received her BFA in Musical Theater from The New School by way of AMDA NY. She has performed Off Broadway in Shout The Mod Musical, Passion, Stop The World, The Boyfriend among many other plays, musicals and workshops. Her work can also be seen on screen, in a few cameos on Saturday Night Live, in several short films and the acclaimed web series, Big City, which she wrote produced and starred in. Two of her projects, Callie Wants a Solo and Boys and Other Distractions, have gone on to win audience choice at the Brooklyn Short Film Festival and have been featured selections at the New York Independent Film Festival and Williamsburg Independent Film Festival, among others. Lauren is also a professional voice over artist having voiced various commercials for TV, Radio and Internet as well as cartoons and book trailers. She is currently a teaching artist with Brooklyn Children's Theater and just finished five years with The Studio Performing Arts, teaching acting, musical theater, voice lessons and voice over. She also helped to create The Studio's Musical Theater program and was their resident director for The Sound of Music, Seussical, Shrek, Peter Pan, Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr., Little Women, Into The Woods Jr., and Legally Blonde Jr. ages 7 to 16.