Lauren Elizabeth Harris(I)

Lauren Elizabeth Harris is an award-winning actor, producer, and founder of Pathway Pictures. She has starred in television (HBO, ROKU), film including Sheepwell (opposite Connor Paolo, Michole Briana White, and Alix Lapri), Friends Wanted (with Jodi Benson, The Little Mermaid), the lead role in Your Vote Matters (opposite Sal Rendino), and stage productions. She played Halle in Murder Loves Company and co-created the acclaimed feminist web series It's A Girl Thing, which screened at over 14 international film festivals. She also starred in Defining Dodo, winner of the LGBTQ Voices Award at the HBO-sponsored Latino Film Festival. Harris can next be seen in Sassy Mohen's feature On The Hook, Kim Caicedo's feature No One Likes A Mad Woman and Bat Sheva Guez's series Babies of Luna Park (The Gotham's "Series Creators to Watch").

Harris is also an accomplished producer, and recipient of the Arthur Krim Memorial Award for Creative Producing. Pathway Pictures' projects include Family Tree (starring William Shatner and Tom Bergeron), Pink Moon (directed by SXSW alum Carol Brandt and starring Debra Monk of The Gilded Age and Vico Ortiz of Our Flag Means Death), Cece Wheeler's Winners and Losers, which received the Indian Paintbrush Grant and premiered at The Raindance Film Festival, and Bat Sheva Guez's series Babies of Luna Park (The Gotham's "Series Creators to Watch"). Harris is honored to be a board member of WIP, SheNYC, a member of Women in Film, and former New York Events Leader for Film Fatales.

She holds a BA in Acting and Spanish from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Creative Producing in Film from Columbia University. Harris has trained internationally at the British American Dramatic Academy in London, the Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, and with Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Judy Kain, Annie Grindlay, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, and is currently part of the Writer's Lab at Groundlings.