Lauren Yarger, producer Gracewell Productions LLC.

Playwright and critic. She has written several dinner theaters and revues as well as the book for an award-winning musical version of A Christmas Carol. 

LAUREN is Co-Founder of the Connecticut Chapter of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Her play concept Reel to Real: The Jennifer O'Neill Story received a reading as part of the organization's Julia's Reading Room series in New York

She also has been a critic covering New York and Connecticut theater for many years. She served as a voting member of the Outer Critics Circle (she is executive producer of the annual awards party), the the American Theatre Critics Association, and is a former voting member and vice president of The Drama Desk.

She produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene which toured nationally for three years before closing in New York.

Lauren also served as a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly.

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