About

​Lauren Casagrande is an actress and teacher with over 30 years of performing, training and teaching experience. She began as a ballet dancer with The Hartford Ballet Company at the age of 8 and rose up through the ranks. At 14 she decided she wanted to use her voice in performance and began acting and singing. She trained as a classical vocalist at the Performing Arts School of Worcester for 4 years with a concentration in Opera. After performing in community theatre and in high school, she attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a Trustee Scholarship.

 

At NYU, in the professional theatre track at Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway, she developed techniques and performance rituals while working with a diverse group of peers and teachers. During her four years at NYU, Lauren performed in many productions, including Mornings, an original musical written and directed by Raul Esparza, and her senior production at Circle in the Square as Anya in The Cherry Orchard. After graduation she performed in New York City, Off-Broadway and regionally. During this time she continued to study with Tony Greco and Terry Schreiber and graduated from the Shakespeare Lab at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre. There, she studied with Kevin Kline, Rosemary Harris, Olympia Dukakis and George C. Wolfe. In between performing, Lauren taught speech, voice and scene study at the T. Schreiber studio in New York City and at the Actors Workshop in Boston.

 

While she loves performing, Lauren's passion is teaching. Leading students with an encouraging, positive and compassionate hand is her specialty. Students walk away with practical exercises and techniques and a deeper knowledge of themselves as they develop as an artist.