SpokenHeard with Lauren Whitehead and Susan Dobbe Chase

Lauren Whitehead is a writer, educator and Master of Fine Arts recipient in Dramaturgy from Columbia University where she was a Schubert Presidential Fellow and an Undergraduate Writing Teaching Fellow.  Lauren has performed around the country including at The Sundance Film Festival, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, The Nokia Theater and The Nuyorican Poets Café. She was featured on HBO’s documentary, “Brave New Voices” and has appeared on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.” Her most recent work is the full length play “stunning, still” which was read at the Vineyard Arts Project and Naked Angels 1st Mondays Play Reading Series. Most recently, Lauren worked as a research assistant to Oskar Eusits at New York University in partnership with The Public Theater. She was the assistant director of “Paradox of the Urban Cliche” by Craig “muMs” Grant and the festival dramaturg for The Fire This Time Festival.