The Latest
Developing The Girl Who Cried Different with Tommy Barbarella (former keyboardist with Prince) and Mariella Elm, a musical about what it’s like to be a girl with special needs in middle school, and her ex-rock star turned stay-at-home dad.
Continuing to develop Mimosa, a musical about the friendship between a plant and a human that reminds us that plants are our companions, not commodities, and that by working together, plants and humans can restore our world, one garden at a time.
UPCOMING
Lauren will be one of nine storytellers sharing her story, “Too Pitchy to Pitch,” on Thursday evening, May 23rd, at her Princeton Reunion as part of a Moth Radio Hour-like event. The event will be recorded and posted on YouTube.
On Friday, May 24th, Lauren will be one of four alums on a University-wide panel on “Career Change.”
The release of Leighanna and the After They’ve Gone Concept Album
Presentation of the William Finn / Danny Ursetti song cycle, Once Every Hundred Years featuring Jeff Blumenkrantz, Demond Green and Zach Noah Piser, in Williamstown on June 6th. Also producing the Cast Album, which will be released in 2025.
RECENTLY
Regretting Almost Everything (Concept Album), featuring Beth Leavel and Jeff Blumenkrantz, and produced by Kathy Sommer and Matt Anthony, is now streaming on all platforms.
To promote the album release, Lauren gave a variety of interviews, including on You’re Not Invisible Over 50 with Kiran Kumar.
Singles “The Music You Made,” “Built for Joy” and “Love Wins”, both by Ursetti & Taslitz, are now available on all streaming platforms.
“Can’t Do It Alone” from Mimosa named Song Slam Finalist by TYA/USA Conference, 2023. Listen here!
Induction into the Recording Academy!
Lauren Kahane is a lyricist-librettist who lives in Chicago and New York.
Writing credits include: Regretting Almost Everything (Barrington Stage and Feinstein’s/54 Below), You Gave Me a Sheep (National Asian Artists Project), A Statue of Stature (Prospect Theatre Company), Join the Club (The Evanston Arts Center, and The Skokie Theatre), and In My Book (Coastal Carolina University). Other musicals include: The Girl Who Cried Different, Mimosa, For the Birds, Bak Chang (Commission, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle), After They’ve Gone, and The Quantification of Relative Human Insignificance (Finalist, Sigworks 2016). Lauren is a 2020 MacDowell Fellow.
Lauren has been in residence at MacDowell, The Johnny Mercer Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, The Catwalk Institute, Barrington Stage Company, The 5th Ave Theatre in Seattle, and Coastal Carolina University. Her work has been performed at Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Barrington Stage Company, NYTB and various other venues in New York and Chicago. She has an MFA from NYU Tisch, a JD from Harvard Law School, a BA from Princeton University, and a certificate of completion from The Second City Writing Program.
She is a founding member of The HomeBrewed Collective, and a member of The Recording Academy, The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and The Drama League.
