Lauren Ward
Photos: BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL in Rehearsal at Southwark Playhouse (Jan 6, 2026)
Photos: David Hunter, Lauren Ward and Hannah Corneau in BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL Artwork (Dec 22, 2025)
Video: Michael Greif Picks the Shows That Shaped Him (Dec 11, 2025)
BIO
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Sound of Music (London Palladium); The Philadelphia Story (Old
Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Camelot (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Vagina Monologues, Elegies (Arts); Dubarry was a Lady (part of the Lost Musicals season at Her Majesty’s); Johnny Johnson (Lost Musicals at Sadler’s Wells). On Broadway: Follies (Belasco); 1776 (Gershwin); The Heiress, Carousel (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: The New Moon (City Center Encores!); Carousel in Concert (Carnegie Hall); Time and Again (Manhattan Theater Club); Saturday Night (Second Stage); Wise Guys (New York Theater Workshop); Jack’s Holiday, Violet (Drama-Logue Award, Drama Desk Nomination. Playwrights Horizon); Exactly Like You (York). US regional: Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Philadelphia); Rough Crossing (Hartford Stage Company); The Glass Menagerie, As You Like It (Great Lakes Theater); Romeo and Juliet (Colonial Theater); She Stoops to Conquer (Walnut Street); The Royal Family, Tartuffe (Utah Shakespeare).
FILM AND TELEVISION INCLUDES: The Last Days of the Lehman Brothers, A Touch of Frost, Torchwood and regular role in the satirical comedy Broken News. In the USA: Law and Order: SVU, Joe Gould’s Secret, Story of Bad Boy.
STAGE CREDITS
Movies
[ 1997 ] Student
[ 1999 ] Ludmilla
[ 2000 ] Anne
[ 2001 ] Doria Look-alike II
Awards and Nominations
Lauren Ward, Matilda the Musical
Lauren Ward, Violet
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Lauren Ward has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.
Lauren Ward has appeared on London's West End in 9 shows.
Lauren Ward's first West End show was Du Barry Was A Lady which opened in 2001
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Matilda the Musical and Outstanding Actress - Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Violet.
Videos