MEET LAUREN SNYDER
The first thing that attracted me to acting was the cookies.
At 7 years old my parents signed me up for a summer acting class that would perform a play in a local park. (It must’ve been cheap; my parents didn’t have “fancy camp” money.) I walked into the rehearsal room and to the left of the door was a table with several packages of store-bought cookies. We were a granola bar household and didn’t have a lot of snacks in the pantry, so the idea of cookies just lying around for the taking was intoxicating. The class was fun, and though I lost out on the lead role to a blonde-haired blue-eyed girl named Joy (story of my life!), I did have a pivotal character role (again, story of my life!) in this tale of a monster that breaks into a mouse’s house. I remember vividly standing on this amphitheater stage on a warm summer evening, aware of the audience’s attention as I spoke my lines, and I had a moment of astonishing clarity as I realized that I was good at this, and that this was what I wanted to do with my life.
Born in New Jersey, educated in Central PA, and currently living in Queens NY, I've only been to California once but have been to Disney World and France several times, and have spent more hours watching British comedies and period dramas than I ought to admit. I’m an accent nerd and am very proud of my RP/Oxford accent - which was deemed “outstanding” by professional accent coach Paula Vanlandingham (www.accentPaula.com). I’ve studied voice for many years and love singing musical theater, opera, and karaoke, but years of dance lessons as a child could only make me into a “mover” and not a dancer. (Even as a 17-year-old ensemble member in a production of A Chorus Line, I could never get the combination right enough to stand a chance at making the cut!) I am a skilled home chef and known for my baked goods; while playing Becca in a production of Rabbit Hole I made all of the dessert props in the show from scratch. (That was a very happy and well-fed cast!)
My dream roles are anything written by Mike Schur, Martin McDonagh, Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, Noel Coward or George Bernard Shaw; anything directed by David Lynch, Noah Hawley, Tina Landau or Rachel Chavkin; and a secondary or tertiary “character” role on a workplace sitcom or a television drama. If you've got any leads on any of the above, please get in touch! :)
⟵ * Me several years ago, pretending to drink tea in Astoria Park.