Shaping Moments,
Shifting Perspectives.

Theater should be provocative and challenging, inviting us into a range of experiences that both enrich and speak to our shared humanity. As an actor/singer, it is an incredible privilege to bring all kinds of complex characters and stories to life. 

For who doesn’t love a really good story? 

  • I Hate Hamlet

    Co-Producer

    Saint Sebastian Players

    Spring 2026

  • Follies

    Heidi Schiller

    April, 2026

  • Squeamish June 5-22, 2025

    Featuring a powerhouse performance by Lauren Miller…….

    Squeamish opens on a lone woman, Sharon, sitting on her therapist’s couch after having abruptly stopped seeing him a few months ago….then takes her doctor and the audience on a journey of loss and addiction and her, let’s call it ‘unorthodox’, way of dealing with them…. Solo actress Lauren Miller has a tall order here…. A one-woman show like this has to survive on the atmosphere created by the its star, and Miller definitely nails that.

    Anchored by a strong lead, Squeamish was by turns creepy and intriguing and would be a great part of a night out this June.

    Recommended

My career is one of reinvention. I began in the opera world, added a career in psychology, then re-entered the world of classical, contemporary and music theater. I love discovering the internal music and rhythm of character work from both sides of the proverbial table.  Consulting, mentoring and working collaboratively in performance are all facets of this vibrant world that I adore.  And….comedic work?  It's the best!

Recent Theater Roles

  • Sharon (Squeamish) One-Woman Show

  • Berthe (Boeing Boeing) Jeff Nominated 2023

  • Minnie McDougal (A Bump on the Leg) 

  • Prospera (The Tempest)

  • Nurse and Prince (Romeo and Juliet)

  • Mistress Quickly (Merry Wives)

  • Stella (Light up the Sky)

  • Ouiser (Steel Magnolias)

  • La Poncia (Bernarda Alba’s House)

  • Peggy, Mr. Hitchcock’s assistant on set (The Birds, a parody)

  • The Player (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)

  • Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking)

Recent Music Theater Roles

  • Eulalie (Music Man in Concert)

  • Mother Superior (Nunsense)

  • Mother Superior (Sister Act)

  • Fraulein Schneider (Cabaret)

  • Princess Puffer (Drood)

  • Poe’s Mother (Nevermore)

  • Mother (Kiss of the Spider Woman)

  • Nettie (Diamond Lil & the Pansy Craze)

  • Mrs. Cratchit/Ghost of Christmas Present/Mrs. Dilber (A Christmas Carol)

  • Katisha (The Mikado)

  • Ivy Brown (1940’s Holiday Radio Shows)

  • Music Man (semi-staged)—Eulalie
    Metropolis PAC/dir. Aaron Kaplan/Aaron Reese Boseman

    Nunsense—Mother Superior
    St. Sebastian Players/dir. Sean Michael Barrett

    A Bump on the Leg —Minnie McDougal/Nurse/Gallagher
    Subtext Theater/dir. Rocky Hagloch

    Boeing Boeing (Jeff Nominated)—Berthe
    St. Sebastian Players/dir. Sean Michael Barrett

    Sister Act—Mother Superior
    Metropolis PAC/dir. Sadé May

    A Christmas Carol (musical)—Mrs. Cratchit/Mrs. Dilber/Ghost of Christmas Present
    Metropolis PAC/dir. Joe Lehman/Erik Wagner

    Diamond Lil & the Pansy Craze—Nettie A. Miller
    Three Cat Productions/dir. Jason P. Smith

    Steel Magnolias—Ouiser
    Okoboji Summer Theatre/dir. Jeannie Woods

    Light up the Sky—Stella
    Citadel/dir. Gerald Pat Murphy

    Cabaret—Fraulein Schneider/ Big Noise Theatre/dir. Brad Kisner, Jeffrey Poindexter

    Drood—Princess Puffer
    St. Sebastian Players/dir. Robert-Eric West

    Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead—The Player
    St. Sebastian Players/dir. Jim Masini, Josh Messick

    The Birds— Peggy/Worried Mom
    Hell in a Handbag/dir. Cheryl Snodgrass

    Spark (new musical)—Morgan
    Three Cat Prod./dir. Jason P. Smith, Roy A. Freeman

    1940’s Holiday Radio Shows—Ivy Brown Three Cat Prod./dir. Jason P. Smith, Roy A. Freeman

    The Mikado—Katisha
    G&S Opera Society/dir. Thrisa Hodits/ David Cubek

    Nevermore—Poe’s Mother
    Jedlicka PAC/dir. Steve Calzaretta/ Daniel Brottman

    The Secret Garden— Holmes/Winthrop
    Lake Forest Theater/dir. Steve Malone/ Aaron Kaplan

    Kiss of the Spider Woman—Mother
    Benevolent Theater/dir. Jessica Harling

    Bernarda Alba’s House—La Poncia
    Poetry Is/dir. Eric Robert Shoemaker

    The Tempest— Prospera Shakespeare All-Stars/dir. Leslie Chapman

    Romeo and Juliet— Nurse/Prince Accidental Shakespeare/dir. Iris Sowlat

    Merry Wives of Windsor—Quickly
    Hyde Park Community Players/dir. Andrea Holliday (staged reading)

    The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion Hyde Park Community Players/dir. Paul Baker

    Dangerous Liaisons — Madame Des Volanges Hyde Park Community Players/dir. Laura MacGregor

  • And then what?—Four Ukrainian sisters over many decades
    First Hand Theatrical/dir. Kevin Olson (Indie)

    Romeo and Juliet—Nurse/Prince
    Accidental Shakespeare/dir. Iris Sowlat

    The Tempest—Prospera
    Shakespeare All-Stars/dir. Leslie Chapman

    Starting Over (S1)—Therapist (self)
    NBC/Bunim Murray Productions (Reality TV)

    Upstaged (S1/Ep 3,5,6,7,12,13)—Marion Barbnut
    Film Stripped Productions (Web)

    Visiting Friends—Karen
    Logan Avenue Productions (Chgo Indie Award)

    Local Area Network—Helen
    Logan Avenue Productions (Indie)

    Committee of Six—Donahue
    Fred Schmidt-Arenales (Indie, Atlantic Film Festival)

    The Machine Stops—Friend
    Merry Beggars/Starboard Media (Podcast)

    Midlife Crisis Hotline—Co-Host Women of a Certain Age/dir. Mary Labrie (Podcast)

  • Opera

    Violetta (La Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Cho-cho-san (Butterfly), Lauretta (Schicchi), Médée (Milhaud’s Medea), Servilia (Idomeneo), Pamina (Magic Flute), Cunegonde (Candide) among others. Companies included CSO, Chamber Opera Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Light Opera Works, Concertante di Chicago.

    Concert Work

    Numerous themed regional concerts specializing in Scandinavian repertoire, venues including Dame Myra Hess, Merkin Hall (NY), Bussetto (Italy), London (England).

    Additional credits:

    German Expressionism Cabaret (Second City/dir. Bernie Sahlins)

    Jam Factoree (William Russo)

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SISTER ACT

“Miller is a petite powerhouse.”

—Regina Belt-Daniels, Shaw Local

LIGHT UP THE SKY

“…Veteran actress Lauren Miller, as Stella… Imagine the glorious Ruth Gordon returning to play this role and you’ll understand the subtle power of this terrific comic actress.”

—Colin Douglas, Chicago Theater Review

BOEING BOEING
(Jeff Nominated)

“…mix indolence and passive-aggression with a heaping helping of martyr complex….Miller commands your focus even as she comes in and surveys the antics happening across the stage.”

—Matt Simonette, Chicago Reader

THE HOLIDAY RADIO SHOW

“Torchlit ballads like “My Buddy” (Miller) heighten the wishful melancholy of the moment.”

—Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times

Get in touch.

AGMA/Non-Equity actor represented by

Big Mouth Talent
kyle@bigmouthtalent.com
312-421-4400

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