After appearing on stage last season as Prospero in The Tempest, Laura is happy to return to Santa Cruz Shakespeare as a director (Romeo and Juliet, 2018 and Much Ado About Nothing, 2015.) A Milwaukee based actor and director, Laura’s directing credits include Boswell (59E59 and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival); She Stoops to Conquer, The Unexpected Man, An Ideal Husband, The Royal Family, Seascape, Old Times (American Players Theatre); The Foreigner, Venus in Fur, Speaking in Tongues, Almost Maine (Milwaukee Rep); The Thanksgiving Play (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); The Revolutionists (Next Act Theatre); Measure for Measure, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Winter’s Tale (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Steel Magnolias (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Boeing-Boeing (Indiana Rep); In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Actors Theater of Louisville); Russian Transport, Skin Tight, Amelia,(Renaissance Theaterworks); Heisenberg, Red, Going to St. Ives (Forward Theater); Richard III (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival). Laura is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow and an Associate Artist with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She is a member of SDC and Actors Equity Association.