Lauren Welchner is an award-winning Toronto-based actor, playwright, and producer. Having studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, she loves to incorporate many theatrical disciplines into the work she creates. A co-founder of the feminist theatre company Spicy Day, Lauren is passionate about creating work that means something with humour and heart.
Lauren’s work with Spicy Day, which she has co-created, performed, and produced, has won ‘Best Of Fringe’ in the Toronto Fringe Festival, been awarded ‘Critic’s Pick’ by Mooney On Theatre, and been nominated for a Prix Rideau Award (Ottawa’s professional theatre awards) for ‘Outstanding New Work’.