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Monday, January 2, 2012
Lauren's profile, past productions and press have all be updated. |
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Friday, December 30, 2011
The First Year Showcase Lauren will be directing at LIU C.W. Post is cast and will begin rehearsals at the end of February. This showcase is set to open Friday, April 13th. Check back soon for more details on this project! |
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Happy Holidays from Lauren and her family!
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Lauren is so pleased to be returning to her alma mater, Long Island University, C.W. Post for the third year to direct the First Year Showcase. Lauren has directed this showcase the previous two years and always loves being back with loved faculty and new students. |
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Orson's Shadow closes tonight after a successful run. |
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Mississippi Mud's production of Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton and directed by Lauren Reinhard will open this Thursday, October 6th at 8pm at Theatre Row in NYC. Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Lauren has begun rehearsals for Mississippi Mud's Off-Broadway revival of Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton. Orson's Shadow will run from October 6th to October 19th at Theatre Row in New York City. |
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Audition dates have been announced for Mississippi Mud's fall production of Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton, which will be directed by Lauren. Open call auditions will be held by appointment on Saturday, August 20th with call backs to follow on Monday, August 22nd. For more information visit Mississippi Mud's official website (www.mississippimudproductions.com). |
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
At 11.09 tonight Lauren gave birth to her and her wife's first child. Despite coming 2 1/2 weeks early, their little boy, River Lee, was born at a healthy 7lbs 12oz. Both mommies and their little guy are all healthy and blissfully happy. Lauren is looking forward to taking some time off so her new little family can get to know one another!
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Friday, April 8, 2011
The Beginning: The 2011 First Year Showcase opens tonight and runs through the weekend at the Little Theatre on the Post campus at Long Island University. The showcase is presented by the Post Theatre Company and is directed by Lauren. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm. |
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Mississippi Mud will be holding a fundraising gala on Monday, March 28, at 7:00 at Lips in Manhattan. Come as your favorite Hollywood icon and help raise money for the company and for its upcoming production of Orson's Shadow. See event details and buy tickets by clicking here. |
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Pre-production is underway for Mississippi Mud's Orson's Shadow, which Lauren will be directing this fall for a three-week run at Theatre Row in New York City. |
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Rehearsals have begun for Post Theatre Company's The Beginning: First Year Showcase. The show is set to open Friday, April 8. Check back for more details on this project. |
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Lauren is very pleased to be returning this year to direct at her alma mater, Long Island University, C.W. Post. This will be her second year directing the Freshman class' showcase production. Lauren is thrilled to be working once again with a group of artists that acted as mentors to her for many years. |
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Lauren is thrilled to be joining Mississippi Mud Productions for the first time directing Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow. The show is set to open next fall. |
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Lauren is spending this fall in development for several different project with a variety of collaborators. She is very excited for the groundwork that this time will warrant for the next exciting projects she will have coming down the line. Stay tuned for more specific details about each project! |
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Coffee Black's first annual No-Doze festival, Style and Sin, opened at Bar 82 at 4:00pm to a sold out crowd. Lauren was pleased to direct Oedipus: The Early Years in the evening's festivities. |
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Lauren is directing a short play for Coffee Black Productions' Style and Sin, 1st Annual No-Doze Festival. The production will have one performance on Sunday, July 25th. Stay tuned for more details! |
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Lauren's has directed Stupid, and Terrible for Rapscallion Theatre Collective's 4th Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival that will be opening tomorrow Thursday July 8th at the Access Theatre. More information can be found at rapscalliontheatrecollective.com and tickets can be purchased through smarttix.com. |
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The festival Lauren is currently directing for, Rapscallion Theatre Collective's 4th Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival has been profiled by Lauren in The Examiner!
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Lauren is very excited to be the new Manhattan Theatre Examiner for the online publication, The Examiner. She will be using her column to profile and spotlight the work of off and off off broadway companies around the city. Please visit her page by clicking here. |
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Lauren is excited to be directing Stupid, and Terrible by Shannon Murdoch for Rapscallion Theatre Collective's 4th Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival. Lauren has directed every year of this festival and she is happy to be going back again this summer! |
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Long Island University, CW Post campus' Post Theatre Company's production of Precipice: The 1st Year Showcase is opening tomorrow Friday April 16th and runs until Sunday April 18th. Performance times are 8pm on Friday and Saturday and 3pm on Sunday. All performances at the Little Theatre on the CW campus of Long Island University. |
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Lauren is currently back at home at her alma mater, Long Island University, CW Post Campus directing their 1st Year Showcase production. This production is set to open April 16th. Stay tuned for more details! |
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Lauren will be taking some time off to enjoy the season until after the Holiday. Warmest greetings for a happy Holiday and a safe and happy New Year to all! |
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Lauren has directing a production of “Skid Marks” by Schatzie Schafers opening tonight at Where Eagles Dare for the Howling Moon Cab Company’s short Play Festival.
Site update: Past Productions page includes a section for Rumors, including production photos. |
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Lauren will be joining David Herskovits and the team of “The Really Big Once” Target Margin Theatre at Emelin Theater today for a showing of the play and a talkback following the show. |
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Neil Simon’s “Rumors” has closed at Fordham after a successful run! Thanks to the cast and crew involved! |
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Lauren's next show is Neil Simon's Rumors at Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus.
This rollicking fast paced farce from Neil Simon takes us to the home of Charley and Myra Brock for a well intentioned dinner party celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary, and we're all invited! The evening doesn't exactly turn out as planned, however...what will we find? Four affluent couples, no servants, no food, no hosts, lots of alcohol and two mysterious gunshots...oh the Rumors!
Performances are from Thursday through Sunday, November 19-22. Tickets are $5 for Fordham Students with ID and $10 for non-students, and can be purchased at the door.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Lauren is thrilled to be going back "home" to work at her alma mater, Long Island University, CW Post. This April she will be working with the first year students on a showcase of their work. Lauren has wonderful memories of ther time with the department at LIU and she is so happy and honored to be going back to work! |
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Lauren is very happy to be back working with TheatreRats directing for the 5th Annual Chester Horn Short Play Festival. Lauren is directing the fantastic new play The Spirit That Won’t Let Me Go appearing in Series B at the festival! Festival dates are October 8th-October 11th at the Medicine Show Theatre. Check out www.theatrerats.com for all the details and to purchase tickets!
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Lauren is thrilled to be joining the team of Target Margin’s The Really Big Once for their 2009-2010 season! The Really Big Once is a company-created piece under the direction of David Herskovits that will have several showings and residencies through out the season, culminating in a final fully staged production on spring of 2010. Keep an eye out for all the details!
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Sunday, August 24, 2009
Lauren has recently completed her time at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. It was an inspiring three weeks that proved to be an invaluable experience. She is now ready to begin work on the as yet untitled second play in the Sacrament Plays. Stay tuned for announcements on the next step of this ongoing journey.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
A reading of Lauren's newest play, RAPTURE: The Death Play will be presented by Rapscallion Theatre Collective on Wednesday July 15th! This is a one night only event, so don't miss it! The reading will be held at The Player's Theatre Loft Space at 115 MacDougal Street in Manhattan at 7pm. Directly following the reading, Lauren will be appearing with the director, Christophe Anderson and the entire cast for a talk back with the audience. Seating is limited so please send all RSVPs to rapscalliontheatre@gmail.com, include your name, phone number and number of tickets you would like reserved, the reading is free, all you have to do is reserve!
RAPTURE: The Death Play is the first installment in a series of plays written surrounding the ideology of the Seven Holy Sacraments. The Sacrament Plays are seven plays in total, one play devoted to each of the Sacraments. The cannon as a whole take the Sacraments, the seven most important things a person does in their life, and boils them down to one single second: together the make the the seven most important seconds in one persons life. RAPTURE: The Death Play starts our journey at the ending point, exploring what a life comes down to at the very end, and ultimately what tears it apart. The Sacrament Plays will be developed over the course of the next five years, so check out each installment to see what we're up to and what moment we're disecting next, up first: death...dismembered.
Lauren would love to see you there, so come and check out this exciting new project! |
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Lauren's latest play RAPTURE: The Death Play will have a reading on Wednesday July 15th at 7pm. The reading will be held at the Players Theatre in Manhattan; look out for more information soon! RAPTURE: The Death Play is the first of seven plays in the play series The Sacrament Plays that Lauren is currently writing.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Four Dry Tongues as presented as part of Rapscallion Theatre Collective's Third Annual Salute Ur Shorts Play Festival closed its successful run this afternoon. Four Dry Tongues took home "Favorite Script" and "Favorite Male Actor" as part of the Audience Awards. Congratulations to everyone who made the festivals such a success!
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Lauren has recently been accepted and will be attending The Lincoln Center Directors Lab this summer.
She is thrilled for this exciting opportunity and looks forward to the collaborations that will come out of the Lab!
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Lauren is very excited to be returning to the fantastic Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival with The Rapscallion Theatre Collective. This will be the third annual, and lucky number three times, Lauren has directed for this festival! Performances run May 38-30. Look out for more details!
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Lauren has put the finishing touches on her first script in the play series she's currently writing, The Sacrament Plays, entitled RAPTURE: The Death Play. This is the first finished play of the coming seven, so look out soon for details about an upcoming reading the script will have produced by the company with whom this play series is being developed, The Rapscallion Theatre Collective.
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Lauren has begun working on a new play series based in the ideology of the Holy Sacraments. This project will encompass seven plays and will be written over the course of the next five years. Look out for news, readings and workshops surrounding this exciting new venture!
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Up next, Lauren is gearing up to begin work on Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens. This piece is still very early in the process so check back often for updates on this very exciting play.
Site update: A new page has been added that includes testimonials from Lauren's colleagues.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Rapscallion Theatre Collective's 2nd Annual "Salute UR Shorts" New Play Festival, including Lauren's work directing Kelly DuMar's Acolyte, ended its successful run on Sunday.
Below, left to right:
Erel Pilo ("Angel"), Kelly DuMar (playwright), Reynold Malcom Hewitt ("Preston") and Lauren.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Don't miss Rapscallion Theatre Collective's 2nd Annual "Salute UR Shorts" New Play Festival this weekend, featuring Acolyte, written by Kelly Dumar and directed by Lauren. Click the image below for more information at the Rapscallion Theatre Collective website.
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street (map it!)
TICKETS:
$18 each
Reserve by calling 347-213-9070
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Production photos have been added to The Inferno Project in the Past Productions section.
A printable copy of Lauren's resume is now available online.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
The Inferno Project played its final performance last night. |
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Monday, February 25, 2008
The Rapscallion Theatre Collective's The Inferno Project tickets are now on sale. Call 347.350.9110 for reservations. Tickets are $18. Visit the Rapscallions' website for more information.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
The Rapscallion Theatre Collective is looking for an Assistant Director for Lauren's The Inferno Project. Ideal applicants should have past experience with dramaturgy, should be movement trained (any movement training is fine, from dance to mime) and should be available for casting and rehearsals from January 20th to March 5th. Performance dates are March 6th to 16th. Interviews will be conducted on Wednesday evening, January 9th. Please be prepared with a director's portfolio or some materials from past shows. If interested, please send resume to lauren@laurenreinhard.com. You will be contacted to schedule an interview on the 9th upon receipt of your resume. Visit the Rapscallion Theatre Collective site for more details. |
Thursday, January 3 , 2008
The Inferno Project, conceived, written, and directed by Lauren, will be produced by the Rapscallion Theatre Collective. Performance dates are scheduled for March 6-16 at the Looking Glass Theatre. Check this page for audition info.
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Lauren is currently writing and developing a new show based on Dante's Inferno and activism in Gen X for production early next year.
A hapless man finds himself in the middle of the woods and is forced with a choice. How does he find his voice in a world where it's all been done before? How do you? A wood, a woman, an opportunity.
Check back here and the Rapscallion Theatre Collective site for more details. |
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Coming up this month, Lauren is directing one of the plays in the Rapscallion Theatre Collective's first annual Salute UR Shorts new play festival. Performances are August 8-11. Please visit the Rapscallions' website for more information and to reserve tickets. |
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
House of Yes production photos have been added to the Past Productions section.
This week on United Stages Online:
Flipping through Playbill one finds listings for forty-six shows, any one of which costs more to present for one evenings performance than the average small-venue play costs for its entire run. How does a small theater company make its mark and produce memorable shows in light of such startling inequity? They start by hiring a hot young director like Lauren Reinhard. [ Read more... ]
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Up next: Lauren will be directing Wendy MacLeod's House of Yes at the Medicine Show Theatre in midtown. Join the House of Yes MySpace page by clicking here and watch the page for news and preview videos. Performances are April 26 to May 5, and tickets are $18. Visit www.theatrerats.com to make reservations online. |
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Trojan Women production photos have been added to the Past Productions section. |
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Trojan Women 2.0 played its final performance on Sunday, September 24. Playwright Charles Mee joined Lauren and Milk Can Theatre Company's artistic director, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, in a post-show talkback on Saturday, Septmber 23. (Photos by Karen Tiongson) |
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Saturday, September 9, 2006
Laurenreinhard.com launches. We are still under construction, so thank you for your patience, and we hope you'll visit us again soon to see what we've added to the site and to keep up with Lauren's projects. Thanks for your support!
Today is the first perforance of Charles Mee's Trojan Women 2.0 at the Michael Weller Theatre. See above for the performance schedule and information on how to get tickets. |
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