Lauren Campedelli, Reentry Through the Arts Program Support, is a Los Angeles-based director and dramaturge who specializes in new work for the stage, helping playwrights develop and hone their scripts. Credits include the recent Shiva for Anne Frank, a solo show by comedian Rachel McKay Steele, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and Intercession by Maia Villa at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA (EST/LA), where she also helmed Evie, Duty Calls by Karen Rizzo, Lizzie by Jose Rivera, and numerous staged and workshop readings for its development programs. She has served as associate director for Theatre of Note’s recent Driving Wilde, and for Evidence Room’s Don Carlos and Hard Times.
As a writer/performer, Campedelli has created both solo and collaborative performance pieces in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as works based on the lives of nursing home residents for Life Stages company. As a teacher, she led at-risk youth (ages 10–18) in an outreach program for Evidence Room Theater (LA) teaching acting and generating original performance material. She also taught professional adult actors movement, vocal work and acting using an eclectic palette of techniques for Sal Romeo Acting Studio. Campedelli’s acting career includes dozens of productions in Chicago and Southern California, including work with Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens Theater, Evidence Room, Sacred Fools, The Actors’ Gang, Center Theatre Group, The Old Globe, and EST/LA. Campedelli currently provides literary support for TheatreWorkers Project’s Life Stories from the Inside/Out program for paroled Lifers in partnership with The Francisco Homes.
