Lauren Bone Noble is the Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Mississippi.
Biography
Lauren Bone Noble is Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor in the Department of Theatre and Film. Lauren earned her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and a BFA from the University of Memphis. Lauren has studied Lecoq based movement styles with Giovanni Fusetti, Avner Eisenberg, Charlie Oates, Susan Chrietzberg, David Bridel and Ronlin Foreman.
Professionally Lauren has performed both on and off-off Broadway, regionally at Studio Arena Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Denizen, Franklin Stage Company, and Arkansas Rep. Lauren has also worked internationally at Vienna’s English Theatre. Television credits include Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, All My Children and over 30 national network commercials. Lauren is represented by by Colors Talent Agency in Memphis and KMR in New York City.
Academically Lauren has taught workshops at Vassar College, Niagara College, Queens College and Rhodes. She taught for nine years at the State University of New York at New Paltz, directing her gender bent Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Servant of Two Masters and parts 1 -3 of The Every 28 Hours Plays. At New Paltz Lauren received the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching and the 2020 Mentor Award.
She is the recipient of South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant, Mississippi Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship and the Individual Arts Grant. She is a member of the 2022-2024 cohort of Isom Fellows.
Performances
Lauren’s solo show FURY! premiered off-off Broadway in 2022 at United Solo where it won Best Comedy. FURY! was also selected as Best Solo Specialty and one of the Best in Fest at the 2022 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. Lauren’s second solo piece, suff(rage), was selected by Orlando Weekly as one of the Best in Fest at the 2025 FestN4! Winter Festival in Orlando, FL. Lauren’s full length play, Madame Zarechnaya, was part of the 2023 Ingram New Works Project at Nashville Rep. She appeared at the Ashland New Plays Festival in the spring of 2023 as Eden in Carlos Zenin-Trujillo’s Our Utopia. In the summer of 2024 she directed An Iliad at Franklin Stage Company in New York.
Courses Taught
- Thea 111 Acting Realism
- Thea 114 Movement for the Actor I
- Thea 314 Movement for the Actor II
- Thea 324 Commedia dell'Arte
- Thea 334 The Practice of Clown
- Thea 410 Acting Process and Integration
Education
B.F.A. Theatre, University of Memphis (1990)
MFA Acting, National Theatre Conservatory (1995)