Lauren Shields (She/Her) is a NYC based Director, Acting coach, and Audition Repertoire Coach. Her directing work has been seen in festivals and theaters all over New York and New Jersey. Lauren believes that the artistic nature of our work is to help the audience continue to digest the recurring events in our lives along with our reactions to them, in the hopes, new exposure and perspective will generate action and change.

Lauren is currently studying directing at the Actors Studio Drama School at PACE University to receive her MFA. She also studied musical theatre at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Lauren is the founder of Audition Checkup, a coaching company and the Co-Founder of Blank Page Theatre Company.