Laurel Devaney
Laurel Devaney (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) recently enjoyed a debut season with Jackie Sizemore's Hudson River Troupe NYC, acting and/or directing five fully-staged Equity 25-hr rehearsal code productions all benefitting charity:water.org including an all-female ensemble-developed Cymbeline. Devaney made her directorial debut with an all-female King Lear at the Kraine Theatre. Last fall she directed the Tennessee Williams one-act Talk to Me Like the Rain . . . And Let Me Listen and sang Stephen Randoy originals at the West Bank Cafe for the Brown Ledge Theatre Benefit Cabaret (dir. Sarah Bell).
Last summer, Laurel Devaney played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Meghan Morgan), with The Hudson River Troupe. Last Spring, she played Deirdre McDavy in Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet (dir. Kate Splaine) with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket where she previously played in Smell of the Kill as well as the New England premiere of Suzanne Bradbeer's Lonestar Grace (dir. Giovanna Sardelli). She is also a founding member of Susan McGinnis's Seaside Shakespeare of Nantucket.
Film work includes the title role in Raffaele Passerini's The Nurse (Cannes, 2006). She played 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 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, where 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 in NYC's only chorus comprised entirely of actors, Darren Lougee's ActorCor.org, she performed in Stephen Sondheim's Birthday Gala at Lincoln Center as well as the annual MLK Day Celebration "Say Yes". A proud member of The Brown Ledge Stock Company, Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA.
Last fall she biked 300 miles in 3 days from Boston to NYC benefiting the HIV/AIDS services of The LGBT Center.
Last summer, Laurel Devaney played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Meghan Morgan), with The Hudson River Troupe. Last Spring, she played Deirdre McDavy in Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet (dir. Kate Splaine) with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket where she previously played in Smell of the Kill as well as the New England premiere of Suzanne Bradbeer's Lonestar Grace (dir. Giovanna Sardelli). She is also a founding member of Susan McGinnis's Seaside Shakespeare of Nantucket.
Film work includes the title role in Raffaele Passerini's The Nurse (Cannes, 2006). She played 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 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, where 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 in NYC's only chorus comprised entirely of actors, Darren Lougee's ActorCor.org, she performed in Stephen Sondheim's Birthday Gala at Lincoln Center as well as the annual MLK Day Celebration "Say Yes". A proud member of The Brown Ledge Stock Company, Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA.
Last fall she biked 300 miles in 3 days from Boston to NYC benefiting the HIV/AIDS services of The LGBT Center.
