Lauren Patrice Goldman Marshall
Organization Details
| Name | Lauren Patrice Goldman Marshall |
| URL | http://www.laurenmarshall.com/ |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Lauren Goldman Marshall has an MFA in Music Theatre writing from NYU, and BA and JD from Stanford. She served as Co-Artistic & Producing Artistic Director of Seattle Public Theater for five years, before stepping down to start a family in 2001. Through SPT’s acclaimed Theater of Liberation program, she worked with youth to explore strategies for conflict resolution and empowerment. Her award-winning plays and musicals have been produced nationally and published by Samuel French. They range from the hit Seattle revue Waiter, There’s a Slug in my Latté to Abraham’s Land, a drama set in the Middle East. She was one of 6 local artists selected to develop new musicals in the 5th Avenue Theatre’s 2013-15 New Works program. Lauren has worked with diverse groups, including Israeli and Palestinian teenagers, Lummi Nation youth, and kids and teens with disabilities, to develop and produce original plays and video plays. She is the founding director of Theater of Possibility, 2010-present, which uses applied theater techniques to practice relationships skills for youth with autism spectrum and other disabilities, as well as kids living in subsidized housing. She has directed numerous plays and musicals for professional, community and youth theater. Lauren co-founded Aspire Girls, a social group for girls with Asperger’s, and has two school-age daughters. |
| Service(s) description | Theater, Playwriting; Collaboration; professional development on doing theater with special needs students - Developing interpersonal skills and community building through generative theater, including improvisation, introductory acting, collaboration and playwriting. |
| Program impact | not provided |
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