THE OFFICIAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN
Lauren Grace Thompson
Anne: Richard III
Antonia: Much Ado About Nothing
Kate: The Beaux' Stratagem
Lauren is so excited to return for her fifth season with MSF!
Past roles at the festival include The Seagull (Nina), King Lear (Cordelia), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly), Macbeth (Ross), Henry V (Boy/Alice), Julius Caesar (Luca), Charley's Aunt (Amy), Cyrano de Bergerac (Ensemble), and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia/Speed), for which she won a Wilde Award for Best Performance of the Bard.
Other previous credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks), Gaslight and Murder on the Nile (Judson Theatre Co.), Black Sunday (Timeline Theatre), Frankenstein (Lifeline), The Importance of Being Earnest (Oklahoma City Rep), Ring Round the Moon (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Parks), and Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth (A Crew of Patches).
Lauren is also a Chicago-based voice actor, dialect coach, and director represented by Big Mouth Talent, and produces the fiction podcast Fawx & Stallion.
All her love to her family, friends, cat, and, as always, to her fellow company member--and, as of this spring, husband--Ian Geers.