Lauren Argo is originally from Cynthiana, Kentucky and is a Gaines Fellow Alumnus with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Kentucky. Lauren's installations includes Will I Be Pretty?, Who I am and Who I am Not, Fingerprints (University of Kentucky), METTA (Philadelphia Fringe Festival), Compartmental Memory (Lexington's Downtown Arts Center, Cincinnati Fringe Festival), Inventing Beauty (2005 Kentucky Women's Writers Conference), One Of Everything: performing their words (2006 Kentucky Women's Writers Conference). Lauren's directing credits include Sure Thing(Balagula Theatre), assisting Benny Sato Ambush with A.M. Sunday (Actor's Guild of Lexington) Love Poem #98, The Quest for the Black Amulet, and Belle Breezing (University of Kentucky). Her acting credits include Margrethe in Copenhagen (Balagula Theatre), Surprise Theatre: Time Flies, Degas Cest Moi, Universal Language (Balagula Theatre) Rita in Prelude To A Kiss (Studio Players, Lexington), Mother Ghost in the world premier of C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce (Singletary Center for the Arts), Hilton in Robin Hood (The Lexington Shakespeare Festival), and numerous productions at the University of Kentucky including Come Back To the Five Jimmy Dean (Sissy), The Glory of Living (Carol), and As You Like It (Celia). Lauren has been awarded two Oswald Research and Creativity Grants and the James W. Rogers Playwriting Award for her play, The Noise In the Room: based on the Diaries of Carolyn Taylor that was produced as a University of Kentucky Main stage Production in 2005. She currently lives in Lexington as a member of the Balagula Theatre group and plans to attend graduate school for Installation/Performance Studies.

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