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BIO

As an actor: Lauren has performed from H.E.R.E. to the Kennedy Center. Favorite roles include Joan in Elaine May's The Way of All Fish, Jill in Butterflies Are Free, and Lala in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other appearances include Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (Kennedy Center) Tango 'Till They're Sore (The Flea Theater), and Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe (P.I.T.). Film & TV credits include The Following (Fox), Ten Thousand Saints (Ethan Hawke), As They Made Us (Candice Bergen) the mockumentary The Royal We, and being famously cut as Gilda Radner from Chapter 27,

Training: MFA: Actors Studio Drama School.
The Second City NY Conservatory Program

As a writer: Lauren wrote the one-act The Onion: First Dates, which was mounted as part of The Southern Slam Festival at the Warehouse Theater, SC, (published in The Louisville Review) which she also appeared in. Lauren is currently working on a full-length play about George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen (Semifinalist The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference, Semifinalist Heiress Production, finalist The Orlando Shakespeare Playfest & Webroadway Competition), and recently appeared in an industry reading of act one, as Gracie Allen. Lauren is also a published essayist on Burns & Allen (for the New England Vintage Film Soc) and has also written articles and essays for Collider & TRAVALANCHE on comedy & pop culture.

Podcasting: Currently, Lauren is the co-host of & FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast & Previously of Fordcast: A Harrison Ford Podcast. Both can be found on iTunes, Google Play, Sound Cloud, Stitcher Radio, & wherever you listen to podcasts. She has interviewed artists such as Emmy Winner Richard Schiff (The West Wing), The Cast/Writers of Murphy Brown, & alumni from both Marvel to Lucas Films.

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THE RACONTEURS: A STORY OF GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN Podcast Concludes on Gracie Allen's 126th Birthday

Highlights from Lauren Milberger's Eugene O'Neill Conference Semi-finalist play, The Raconteurs: A Story Of George Burns And Gracie Allen: The podcast will conclude its four-part episode, first season run. on Monday, July 26th, the 126th Anniversary of Gracie Allen's birthday.
THE RACONTEURS: A STORY OF GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN Presented As Weekly Podcast

The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen, takes you on the origins journey of real-life comedy legends George Burns and Gracie Allen, focusing on milestones in the couple's life such as their first meeting, falling in love, and the evolution of their act.
Casting Set For Reading Based On The Life Of George Burns And Gracie Allen, THE RACONTEURS

Casting is set for a private invite-only workshop reading of The Raconteurs: A Story Of George Burns & Gracie Allen to be presented on Aug 5th at 7 pm in New York City.
Rediscovered Masterwork ONE OF THOSE Featuring Peter Van Wagner To Be Presented Tonight At YIVO

Paula Prilutski's rediscovered masterwork ONE OF THOSE, a proto-feminist drama about an independent woman living in an unfree world, will be presentedtonight (Monday) at 7 pm at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in a newly commissioned English translation (from the original Yiddish) by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman. This one-night-only event is another of YIVO's Treasures from the Archives.
Peter Van Wagner Heads Cast Of Rediscovered Masterwork ONE OF THOSE

Paula Prilutski's rediscovered masterwork ONE OF THOSE, a proto-feminist drama about an independent woman living in an unfree world, will be presented this Monday, May 14th at 7 pm at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in a newly commissioned English translation (from the original Yiddish) by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman. The one-night-only event is another of YIVO's Treasures from the Archives.   
Rediscovered Masterwork ONE OF THOSE To Be Presented May 14

Paula Prilutski's rediscovered masterwork ONE OF THOSE, a proto-feminist drama about an independent woman living in an unfree world, will be presented on Monday, May 14th at 7 pm at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in a newly commissioned English translation (from the original Yiddish) by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman. The one-night-only event, another of YIVO's Treasures from the Archives, will benefit their new online class OH MAMA I'M IN LOVE! THE STORY OF THE YIDDISH STAGE.
Forget Those Two Scoundrels! Vote W.C. FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT at 13th Street Rep

Never mind those two scoundrels... vote for THIS scoundrel! It's time to consider W.C. FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT.
Forget Those Two Scoundrels! Vote W.C. FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT at 13th Street Rep

Never mind those two scoundrels... vote for THIS scoundrel! It's time to consider W.C. FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT.
Photo Flash: Jackie Hoffman & Dominic Chianese Check Out Theatre 80's DANCING ON NAILS!

DANCING ON NAILS, a new play by Paul Manuel Kane, celebrated its Opening Night last evening, July 24th at Theatre 80. Celebrity guests included Terence Winter (Creator of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," Writer and Executive Producer for "The Sopranos"), Dominic Chianese (Junior Soprano on "The Sopranos"), and Jackie Hoffman (Hairspray, The Addams Family, Xanadu). Check out a look back at the evening below!
'Dinner with Ahmed' Showcased at American Theater of Actors

Blume Media Group (Drama Desk Awards presenter) will premiere an AEA showcase production of a new topical comedy Dinner With Ahmed, by Paul Rawlings with direction by Danielle Campbell, at the Sargent Theater / American Theater of Actors (314 West 54th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues) for a three-week limited engagement from February 22 through March 9, 2008.

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