Since 2015, Lauren has co-run award-winning Kandinsky Theatre Company with director James Yeatman. You can find out more about the company’s work here. Her credits as a writer-dramaturg on Kandinsky projects include main-stage commissions from the Royal Exchange Manchester (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 2019, ★★★★ The Stage, The Observer) and the Schauspielhaus in Vienna, as well as extensive work at the New Diorama Theatre, where Kandinsky is an associate company.

Shows made at NDT include Dinomania (★★★★★ ‘No-one else makes theatre quite like this’ Time Out); Trap Street, which transferred to the prestigious Festival of International New Drama (FIND) at the Schaubühne Berlin, where the New York Times described it as 'not only the highlight of the festival but one of the most ingenious pieces of new theater I have seen recently'; and The Winston Machine (★★★★ 'a typically probing and playful work from Kandinsky…shot through with music and mischief' Guardian) which also toured nationally to venues including the Marlowe in Canterbury, Bristol Old Vic and Theatre by the Lake.

Before going freelance in 2018, Lauren worked for two years in the literary and producing team at Clean Break Theatre Company, where she co-edited their monologue collection Rebel Voices (Methuen, 2019). She has also worked as a dramaturg with venues and companies as varied as Wales Millennium Centre, Pleasance Edinburgh, the Mercury Theatre, LAMDA and Opera Zuid. She has run workshops on dramaturgy for Wildcard, LAMDA and the Royal Exchange Theatre, and worked as a reader at the Royal Court and the National Theatre. She has written about theatre and culture for Exeunt, The Stage and The Guardian.

Lauren is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers’ Group and is on the board of the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Her recent credits include: Mrs Caliban (dramaturgy & text for Kandinsky at Theatro Technis / CSSD); dramaturgy on My Mother’s Funeral: The Show by Kelly Jones (Paines Plough Roundabout / UK tour); and reading for the first ever Polka Playwriting Award. Upcoming work includes Top G’s Like Me (dramaturg, Royal & Derngate Northampton) and Kandinsky’s Royal Court debut, More Life.

Rehearsals in Manchester. Photo by Manuel Harlan