Lauren Bone Noble is the Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Mississippi.
Biography
Lauren Bone Noble earned her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and a BFA from the University of Memphis. She has studied Lecoq based movement styles with Giovanni Fusetti, Avner Eisenberg, Charlie Oates, Susan Chrietzberg, David Bridel and Ronlin Foreman. Lauren also taught for nine years at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Professionally Lauren Bone Noble has performed both on and off-off Broadway, regionally at Studio Arena Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Denizen, Franklin Stage Company, and Arkansas Rep. Lauren has also worked internationally at Vienna’s English Theatre. Television credits include Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, All My Children and over 30 national network commercials. Lauren is represented by Colors Talent Agency in Memphis.
Academically Lauren has taught workshops at Vassar College, Niagara College, Queens College and Rhodes. While a faculty member at the State University of New York at New Paltz, she directed her gender bent Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Servant of Two Masters and parts 1 -3 of The Every 28 Hours Plays. At New Paltz Lauren received the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching and the 2020 Mentor Award.
She is the recipient of South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant, Mississippi Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowship and the Individual Arts Grant. She was a member of the 2022-2024 cohort of UM Isom Fellows.
Performances
- Her second solo piece, suff(rage), was selected by Orlando Weekly as one of the Best in Fest at the 2025 FestN4! Winter Festival in Orlando, FL.
- Lauren’s full length play, Madame Zarechnaya, was part of the 2023 Ingram New Works Project at Nashville Rep.
- She appeared at the Ashland New Plays Festival in the spring of 2023 as Eden in Carlos Zenin-Trujillo’s Our Utopia.
- In the summer of 2024, she directed An Iliad at Franklin Stage Company in New York.
Courses Taught
- THEA 1110 Acting Realism
- THEA 1140 Movement for the Actor I
- THEA 3140 Movement for the Actor II
- THEA 3240 Commedia dell'Arte
- THEA 3340 The Practice of Clown
- THEA 4100 Acting Process and Integration
Education
B.F.A. Theatre, University of Memphis (1990)