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Laura has dreamed of being a performer since sometime
before she can remember, and has been actively training in Musical Theater
for the past seven years.
As a young girl, Laura had dreamed of becoming a ballerina,
and in her early teen years, she discovered that there was huge world in
addition to dance that she would grow to love.... The world of Musical
Theater as a whole.
She started out her theatrical experiences performing
with the Buena Park Youth Theater, and she was also involved in Tri-School
Theater, a theatrical program that was composed of 3 different local high
schools. Throughout the past seven years, Laura has studied
voice, dance, and acting, and has appeared in twenty seven full length
theatrical productions, as well as numerous choral, and variety shows. |
In addition to her work on-stage, she has recently used her skills
in the technical aspects of theater with her Stage Managing work, as well
as pursuing her interest in costume design.
Just this June, Laura was awarded the Cypress College
Patron of the Arts 2001 Clifton Stout Performing Arts Student of the
Year Scholarship. And Last year she had the great
fortune of being nominated for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre
Festival Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship for her performance as Ado
Annie in Cypress College's production of OKLAHOMA!, and .
Laura has portrayed such other diverse roles as Sister
Mary Leo in Nunsence, The Baker's Wife in
Into
The Woods, Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show, Leisl
AND
Mother Abbess in The
Sound of Music, Nancy in
Oliver,
Maria
in West Side Story, and Miss Caroline in Villain in the
Toyshop. And, she has performed as a dance lead in such shows
as OKLAHOMA (3 times) as a Twin Dancer,
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as a Narrator-ette, and
Sweeney
Todd as Young Lucy. Laura also has been very fortunate to have
had the experience of performing at the Hollywood Bowl, singing in the
Opera
Bizet's Carmen. |
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