Lauren is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. As a dialect and accent acquisition coach, she works both privately and in film and theater production.
Lauren’s coaching credits for film include Drunk Parents (speech coach to Salma Hayek) and Beijing, New York (dialect coach to Chiling Lin).
Some of Lauren’s notable coaching credits for the stage include Manhattan Concert Productions' The Scarlet Pimpernel at Lincoln Center (coach to Tony Yazbeck, Laura Osnes, Drew Gehling, and Corey Cott), JoAnne Akalaitis’s Bad News...i was there (Skirball Center), and A Man of No Importance (B-Side Productions). Lauren also assisted Royal Shakespeare Company dialect coach George Richmond-Scott in teaching Irish and English actors General American accents for the RSC's workshop production of Little Eagles. She has dialect coached several productions at NYU/Steinhardt, including The Secret Garden, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Pirates of Penzance, Brigadoon, and Rags.
Lauren began her coaching career as the principal speech and dialects teacher for New York Film Academy's Musical Theatre program. Since then, Lauren has also taught at HB Studios and Pittsburgh CLO Academy. She is on the faculty of Pace University’s Musical Theater BFA program, teaches remotely for Actors’ Lab Ukraine, and coaches privately.