Lauren Van Kurin
Hometown: Yorba Linda, CA
Current Town: Los Angeles
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Kong in Vegas, a new play in LA and I improvise with my iO West Harold Team MAX!
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
A: I'm the middle, middle child in a loud family. 4 kids 3 girls, 1 boy and I was middle girl. I'll do anything to make my family laugh or smile. My family made me a fearless performer.
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
A: Giving standing ovations so often and casting names over talent.
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
A: I saw Mark Rylance BECOME Olivia in Twelfth Night in London at the Globe when I was 20. I'll never forget that performance. The Second City writer/ performers I watched as an intern and my current Fools. My 2 acting college teachers that encouraged me to not give up even though i'd never done a play.
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
A: I'm obsessed with Hamilton right now, like the rest of the world. The Wooster Group, Steppenwolf, 99 seat theater in Los Angeles!
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
A: Keep writing and writing and writing and writing.
Q; Plugs, please:
Q; Plugs, please:
A: Come see our show King of Kong: A Musical Parody at the ONYX Friday, Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm! Serial Killers at Sacred Fools in Los Angeles Saturday's at 11pm, Comedy People's time in NYC!
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