Laurel Devaney (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) is a performing artist based in NYC. Having acted since childhood, she made her directorial debut last year with 'King Lear' (cast comprised of thirteen female actors) at the Kraine Theatre benefitting charity:water, followed by the Tennessee Williams one-act 'Talk to Me Like the Rain . . . And Let Me Listen'. Last summer, she assistant directed 'As Bees in Honey Drown' at the prestigious Cape Playhouse, MA (artistic director, Evans Hayle).
Recent roles include: Small Penis in 'Spring Pictures: The Floating World' (based on classic Asian Erotica) with Peculiar Works Ensemble at LaMama (dir. Miriam Eusebio/Yukio Euno), Titania in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (dir. Meghan Morgan), co-director/Cloten in 'Cymbeline' with Jackie Sizemore's Charity:Water benefit Shakespeare company. Laurel is a founding member of Susan McGinnis's Seaside Shakespeare of Nantucket, where she had the pleasure and honor of playing many of Shakespeare's ingenues. Other roles: Deirdre McDavy in Paul Rudnick's 'I Hate Hamlet' (dir. Kate Splaine) Molly in 'Smell of the Kill' as well as Persephone in the New England premiere of Suzanne Bradbeer's 'Lonestar Grace' (dir. Giovanna Sardelli).
Film work includes the title role in Raffaele Passerini's The Nurse (Cannes, 2006), both the good and evil angels in split screen for Turkish director Ayberk Sak's Ordinary Day based on his experience of Islam as well as the title role in Sak's The Sweet Hitchiker. Television work includes Abigail Adams's servant in PBS's American Experience, Patty Mullen's sister in Showtime's Brotherhood and a "fancy lady" of Al Capone's favorite Chicago Brothel, The Four Deuces in the first two seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
With a BA in Theatre and Film from Occidental College in Los Angeles, she was a guest artist with Tim Robbins and Tracy Young's Actors' Gang as well as the Cornerstone Theatre Ensemble, The Evidence Room, Theatre of N.O.T.E. and The Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, for which she earned rave reviews as a Bear, Tiger and Goddess of the Heavens in Angela Kang's 'When Tigers Smoked Long Pipes' a contemporary show based on Korean folklore.
A Soprano and soloist in NYC's only chorus comprised entirely of actors, Darren Lougee's ActorCor, she performed in Stephen Sondheim's Birthday Gala at Lincoln Center as well as the annual MLK Day Celebration "Say Yes". She is a member of The Brown Ledge Stock Company, Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA.
This year will be the fifth year Laurel participates in a 300 mile bike ride from Boston to NYC with Braking The Cycle, benefiting the HIV/AIDS service organization, Housing Works.
www.laureldevaney.com
Recent roles include: Small Penis in 'Spring Pictures: The Floating World' (based on classic Asian Erotica) with Peculiar Works Ensemble at LaMama (dir. Miriam Eusebio/Yukio Euno), Titania in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (dir. Meghan Morgan), co-director/Cloten in 'Cymbeline' with Jackie Sizemore's Charity:Water benefit Shakespeare company. Laurel is a founding member of Susan McGinnis's Seaside Shakespeare of Nantucket, where she had the pleasure and honor of playing many of Shakespeare's ingenues. Other roles: Deirdre McDavy in Paul Rudnick's 'I Hate Hamlet' (dir. Kate Splaine) Molly in 'Smell of the Kill' as well as Persephone in the New England premiere of Suzanne Bradbeer's 'Lonestar Grace' (dir. Giovanna Sardelli).
Film work includes the title role in Raffaele Passerini's The Nurse (Cannes, 2006), both the good and evil angels in split screen for Turkish director Ayberk Sak's Ordinary Day based on his experience of Islam as well as the title role in Sak's The Sweet Hitchiker. Television work includes Abigail Adams's servant in PBS's American Experience, Patty Mullen's sister in Showtime's Brotherhood and a "fancy lady" of Al Capone's favorite Chicago Brothel, The Four Deuces in the first two seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
With a BA in Theatre and Film from Occidental College in Los Angeles, she was a guest artist with Tim Robbins and Tracy Young's Actors' Gang as well as the Cornerstone Theatre Ensemble, The Evidence Room, Theatre of N.O.T.E. and The Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, for which she earned rave reviews as a Bear, Tiger and Goddess of the Heavens in Angela Kang's 'When Tigers Smoked Long Pipes' a contemporary show based on Korean folklore.
A Soprano and soloist in NYC's only chorus comprised entirely of actors, Darren Lougee's ActorCor, she performed in Stephen Sondheim's Birthday Gala at Lincoln Center as well as the annual MLK Day Celebration "Say Yes". She is a member of The Brown Ledge Stock Company, Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA.
This year will be the fifth year Laurel participates in a 300 mile bike ride from Boston to NYC with Braking The Cycle, benefiting the HIV/AIDS service organization, Housing Works.
www.laureldevaney.com
