Lauren Ward is an American singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in London’s West End. She is based in the UK.
In 2026, she starred as Scottie in Beautiful Little Fool at Southwark Playhouse Borough in London.
Lauren originated the role of Miss Honey in the Stratford-upon-Avon, West End and Broadway productions of Matilda, earning nominations for both the Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She received her second Olivier Award nomination for Dear Evan Hansen.
She recently appeared as Virginia Creel in Stranger Things: The First Shadow in the West End.
In New York, Lauren has appeared on Broadway in Follies, 1776 and Carousel, and originated the title role in Jeanine Tesori’s Violet, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Selected Theatre Credits
UK Theatre includes:
Stalled (King’s Head Theatre); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward Theatre); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Caroline, Or Change (Hampstead Theatre); Matilda (RSC, Cambridge Theatre); The Winter’s Tale and Pericles (RSC); The Sound of Music (London Palladium); The Philadelphia Story (The Old Vic); Elegies; The Vagina Monologues (Arts Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Camelot (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); and Du Barry Was a Lady (Her Majesty’s Theatre).
US Theatre includes:
Follies (Belasco Theatre); 1776 (Gershwin Theater); The Heiress; Carousel (Lincoln Center); The New Moon (City Center Encores); Time and Again (Manhattan Theatre Club); Saturday Night (Second Stage); Wise Guys (New York Theatre Workshop); Violet (Playwrights Horizons); The Glass Menagerie; As You Like It (Great Lakes Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Colonial Theatre); She Stoops to Conquer (Walnut Street); The Royal Family; and Tartuffe (Utah Shakespeare).
Television & Film
On television, Lauren has appeared in Kiss Me First, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, A Touch of Frost, Torchwood and Broken News.
Her film credits include Matilda the Musical, Series 7: The Contenders, Joe Gould’s Secret and Story of a Bad Boy.
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