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Lauren currently serves as the Connectivity Director for Maelstrom Collaborative Arts: integrating diverse genres, disciplines, and media to explore innovative forms of performance and collaboration. We produce live and virtual interactions that invite artists and audiences into new adventurous territory.  Since our first performance in 2006, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts (formerly Theater Ninjas) has built a reputation for boundary-pushing work noted for its range of styles and content, highly-stylized physical staging, site-specific production, and experimentation with interaction and audience agency. We have been committed to producing a mix of world/regional premieres and original productions including devised plays, classical reinventions, participatory game-based art experiences, and work-in-progress showcases for theatre and dance. At the core of our identity is the idea of theater as an event, and everything we do feeds into our goal of creating extra-ordinary experiences that resonate with audiences long after the show is over. In 2017, the Company began leasing a storefront suite  in the Gordon Square Arts District that functions as a headquarters for activities including rehearsals, performances, classes in movement and devised theater creation, audio and video recording, and administration including box office.

Lauren is also currently a Joan Yellen Horvitz Director Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre. CPT's Fellowship Program is a year-long program for emerging directors of extraordinary potential living in Northeast Ohio. Supported by Joan Yellen Horvitz, CPT initiated this program to address Cleveland’s limited pool of directors with experience in directing new work and to meet the needs of up-and-coming directors. CPT's mission is to raise consciousness and nurture compassion through groundbreaking performances and life-changing education programs.