Lauren Keating

Lauren Keating is the queer daughter of Italian Catholics from rural New Jersey. She is a director, adaptor, writer, producer and educator committed to engaging audiences in imaginative, personal stories with queer characters at the center. Her inclusive, musical, large-scale production of A Christmas Carol, on which she  is both adaptor and director, can be seen annually at The McCarter Theatre Center, currently starring Cameron Knight. Keating made her off-Broadway directing debut to New York Times acclaim with Al’s Business Cards by Josh Koenigsberg (Orange is the New Black). Regional productions include Emily Mann’s adaptation of Antigone by Sophocles for Cleveland Play House, Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds for The Jungle Theater, and three seasons of A Christmas Carol for The Guthrie Theater, where she achieved many casting firsts in addition to record breaking revenue. Her developmental work for the stage includes The Art of Gaman by Dipika Guha (Mrs. Maisel) for The Women’s Project, Berkeley Rep and Fault Line, Camdenside by Sarah Burgess (Impeachment) for Studio42, Learning Russian by Micheal Mitnick (Current War) for The Hangar Theater, The Rembrandt by Jessica Dickey (Physical) for The Guthrie Theater and The Antony and Cleopatra Project with Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) for McCarter Theatre Center’s Conservatory. Her own adaptations, most often plays with live music, include Wedekind’s Lulu (Dixon Place), Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (7th House), and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Public Theater workshop) and Comedy of Errors (NYC Parks & Rec). For screens, her short film, Power Out, is streaming with Red Tower Entertainment and has over 14k views on YouTube. Her webseries, The Feminist Cooking Show, trended on Stareable and was selected for the Network Notes program at ITVFest. She has received grants from the Mellon Foundation/TGG and the Time Warner Foundation. She has been an adjunct professor at Rider University and The New School, as well as taught for BAM, The Public Theater, Fordham, NYC Dept of Corrections and more. Keating was a 2024/25 Drama League Film & Television Fellow, where she worked with mentors Tony Phelan and Nicole Rubio, was observing director on Fire Country, and trained with Jude Weng at the Paramount Directing Initiative.  She is the former Associate Producer at The Guthrie Theater, the former Artistic Associate of The Shakespeare Society, an NYU/Tisch alumnus, and a proud member of the Alliance of Women Directors. Upcoming work includes her new short film Mommi and a new live narrative experience exploring the Dark Sky Initiative, queerness and constellations through her New Georges’ Audrey Residency. She resides in Central New Jersey with her wife and daughter. www.Lauren-Keating.com