Ms. Lauren is a founding member and Co-artistic director of SITI Theatre in New York. An accomplished actor based in New York City, she has performed all over the world, including Greece, Japan, England, Russia, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, China, Italy, Chile, France and Canada. She is head of SITI’s Education programming and helped conduct ongoing training residencies in over 250 institutions and theaters in the US and abroad for over 23 years, including: Royal Shakespeare Company, Teatro Abadia Madrid, The Le Coq School and Micadanses in Paris, and the Nordic Theater Festival, Aberystwyth Wales.  

Ms Lauren has been an ongoing faculty member at the Juilliard School of Drama since 1995, teaching the Suzuki Training. She is a recipient of the Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement (2008-2010). She is published in American Theater Magazine (January 2011, In Search of Stillness), as well as in the Modern Masters series on Anne Bogart published in 1998. She is currently at work on a book about her experience with the Suzuki Company, The Invisible Body.

SITI Company is renowned for its unique approach to theater training, based upon a symbiotic pairing of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the practice of Viewpoints. While the trainings are distinct from one another and are taught as such, they share hallmarks that include collaboration, rigor and addressing the meeting point where the individual encounters the ensemble. The influences on both these trainings range from classical Greek theater to post modernism. Together they offer an alternative to current practices in actor training that focus primarily on psychological and emotional approaches. The trainings are not intended to dictate a stylistic approach, rather they serve as a foundation for any avenue a theater artist wishes to pursue artistically.