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, Papa.

  • Continuing to develop Mimosa: The Disobedient Plant, 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.

“After They’ve Gone!” with music by Paul Libman

Now streaming

Emptynesterhood

Second Coming of Age

I Can Make It Work

I Won’t Let Go 

Upcoming releases

He Knows It’s Me (October 25th)

Muscle Memory (November 1)

Emptynesterhood Album (November 8th)

UPCOMING

  • Invitation-only reading of The Girl Who Cried Different, in Minneapolis, on October 6, produced by Yellow Tree Theatre, directed by Austene Van.

  • Executive Producer of the Cast Album of the William Finn-Danny Ursetti song cycle, Once Every Hundred Years. Release date TBD.

  • Singles from the After They’ve Gone Concept Album, with music by award winning composer Paul Libman, will be released weekly beginning September 27, culminating in the release of the complete concept album on November 8th. A discussion of why I decided to release these songs can be found in the newly-added blog.

  • Other upcoming Taslitz-Ursetti releases include Leighanna, featuring vocals by Rebecca Hart, and both a solo and duet version of, You Get A Call, featuring vocals by Bèlen Moyano and Demond Green. 

RECENTLY

  • Lauren was 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 was be recorded and posted on YouTube.

  • 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 “Fun,” “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.

Download Lauren’s Resume (PDF).