Lauren is thrilled to join the Plano Moms Live Show, hosted by local moms and featuring businesses and people from all over Plano. Hop over to the Performing/Clips section of the website to check out her first hosting appearance at Keeks Designer Handbags!
The Ascot Gavotte is Wünderbar!
Lauren is thrilled to announce she's been cast in the ensemble of the classic musical MY FAIR LADY and as the diva extraordinaire Lilli Vanessi/Kate in KISS ME, KATE, both with Garland Summer Musicals.
GSM has a long history of quality summer stock theatre in Dallas, and Lauren is endlessly grateful for the opportunity to tread the boards of the beautiful Granville Arts Center.
A Season with Frog and Toad
Lauren will wrap up her three-week run with North Texas Performing Arts's professional touring production of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD on Thursday, April 19th. If you love flying kites and eating cookies and sledding down hills, you should come check it out! Click here for tickets.
In order of appearance: Lady Bird 1, Lizard, Mother Frog, and Mole 2.
TOAST, WITH A SIDE OF MENTORSHIP
Lauren's middle grade novel, IGGY TOAST, has been selected as one of only eight middle grade selections nationwide to participate in Author-Mentor Match. According to its website, Author-Mentor Match is a program for "unpublished writers of young adult and middle grade novels, about to start querying (or have only queried lightly) who are looking to find an agent and/or traditional publisher for their manuscript."
It's a big deal, y'all!
For information about AMM, click here.
For information about Lauren's awesome mentor, Melissa Sarno, and her upcoming book release, click here.
Philly to Dallas to Jersey, oh my!
In August, Lauren relocated to Dallas, Texas, and has begun working with a local writing group and auditioning in the thriving theatrical community there. Howdy, Texas!
To read more about Lauren's transition into a new writing community, visit the SCBWI Eastern Pennsylvania chapter's blog here.
Shortly after relocating, Lauren's novel-in-progress was accepted to the prestigious Rutgers One-On-One Plus Conference in New Brunswick, NJ, this fall. Started in 1969 by Vivian Grey, the Rutgers Conference is a staple in children's literature, having turned out success stories from the likes of Marcie Aboff, Laurie Halse Anderson, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Pat Brisson, Pamela Jane, Denise Lang, Gail Carson Levine, Dianne Ochiltree, Coleen Paratore, Pamela Curtis Swallow, Rita Williams-Garcia, Kay Winters and Elvira Woodruff.
