Laura Darrell

A conservatory-trained actress in Los Angeles (USC), New York (NYU), and the UK (BADA), Laura Darrell has acted professionally since the age of ten. She has appeared on TV and in several independent feature films, indie shorts, and webseries, many of which have appeared in major festivals, including Sundance and Cinequest. Laura has also performed lead roles in theaters across the country. Laura is currently shooting a recurring role, Sister Lee, on SYFY's Happy!, starring Christopher Meloni. She also played a recurring role on the first season of Dietland on AMC. Before that Laura was seen in movie theaters as mean girl Eileen in Alicia Slimmer's feature film debut Creedmoria, starring Stef Dawson (Hunger Games), which won many awards, including Best Comedy at the Cinequest Film Festival. A few of her favorite theater credits include Encores!: The Golden Apple at New York City Center, directed by Michael Berresse, as well as Suze in John Kander and Greg Pierce's new musical Kid Victory, which ran Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater, directed by Liesl Tommy. The official Off-Broadway cast album came out in September 2017. Before that she debuted as Anna in the opening cast of Frozen Live at DCA, also directed by Liesl Tommy. Laura has workshopped new pieces at several prestigious New York companies, including the Araca Group, Signature, and EST, among others.

Besides working in New York and Los Angeles, Laura has performed at several professional regional theaters across the country, and has sung with orchestras from Portland to Orlando. She is also a proud narrator of audiobooks, narrating over twenty titles for Audible and now Tantor! She graduated a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and magna cum laude from the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Before that she attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts.