Lauren Marcus is an actor and writer living in NYC.

She is a 2021 finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, a 2022 semifinalist for the O’Neill, and was chosen by New York Stage and Film to develop her original television pilot, Honest Living, with their Filmmakers Workshop.

Lauren’s new musical, Lauren and The Case of The Missing Hair (book/music/lyrics), is a 2022 Relentless Award Semifinalist (judges included Lynn Nottage, Rachel Bloom, Lucy Thurber) and received a 29-hour developmental reading from Two River Theater in January 2022, as well as a reading at NYC’s legendary Power Station in December 2022.

Lauren is a recipient of the 2021 Penn State New Musical Theatre Initiative Commission (alongside Alexander Sage Oyen, music, and James Presson, book), and has spent the past two years developing the new musical Me and My Friends Killing Nazis. It had a workshop presentation at Penn State in April 2022 and its score was presented at Feinstein’s/54 Below in May 2022.

This coming year, she’ll be co-writing the book for a new musical adaptation of the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun (based on the 1985 Sarah Jessica Parker film) for Lively McCabe Entertainment alongside M. Dickson (How I Met Your Father, Disenchantment, Superstore).

Lauren’s children’s musical, The Meanest Birthday Girl (book/lyrics, music by Leah Okimoto), ran as part of the 2015 NY Children’s Theatre Festival at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village.

Love Letter (book and original music co-written by Joe Iconis), a hybrid cabaret/musical/rock show celebrating Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, played sold out runs at Don’t Tell Mama’s and Feinstein’s/54 Below in 2017 and 2019.

As a singer-songwriter, Lauren released her debut EP, Never Really Done With You, in 2016. She held two sold-out residencies at Rockwood Music Hall in 2019 and 2021, and is currently at work on her first full-length album, Drugstore. She reaches over 68K listeners monthly.

Lauren is an alumnus of the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. She holds a Bachelor of Music from New York University and a Master of Arts from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.