Lauren Cook

Lauren A. Cook is a Boston-based stage director, intimacy choreographer, voice teacher, and sometimes actor. Her work in intimacy direction and staging includes credits with Boston Lyric Opera (Eurydice), Boston Conservatory Opera (Summer and Smoke), Hub Theatre Company (Tartuffe, Book of Will, Burn This), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, MassOpera’s immersive La Traviata, two productions of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses (Suffolk University and Arlington Children’s Theatre), and the world premiere of Nighttown with Lowell House Opera at Harvard University (winner of the 2023 American Prize in composition). Other world premieres include a staged reading of Fulbright scholar and international best-selling author Hope Jahren’s inaugural theatrical work, Waiting for Cain, as well as multiple appearances in the annual Boston Theatre Marathon.  She holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and continues to teach both actors and singers in voice, speech, and dramatic interpretation. Her writing on consent-based and ethical performing arts education is featured in Trauma and the Voice: A Guide for Singers, Teachers, and Other Practitioners, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2023. She currently serves as the Education and Artistic Associate for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.