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Laura Standley |
The descendent of vaudevillians and tent show performers, Laura Standley is a director/actress with fifteen years of experience working professionally throughout the United States and Europe. She is a founding member of Ground Up Productions in New York City, and for the past two years served as Associate Artistic Director, of the young company dedicated to the production of the "new classics." As a director, Laura’s credits include the lion’s share of Ground Up’s shows including their inaugural production of The Shape of Things by Neil Labute. Other favorite projects include Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker and Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel.
As an actress, Laura has performed off-Broadway and regionally with companies such as the Jean Cocteau Repertory and Judith Shakespeare Company. She was a resident company member of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where she performed with such theatre luminaries as Robert Cuccioli (Jaques Brel, Jekyll and Hyde), Laila Robins (Heartbreak House, Frozen) and the late Dana Reeve. Favorite roles include Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Electra in Euripides’ play of the same name and Catherine in Lynn Marie Macy’s captivating adaptation of Jane Austin’s Northanger Abbey.
With her MFA in Acting from University of California, Irvine and her BA in Theatre from the University of Central Oklahoma, Laura's work is greatly influenced by Michael Chekhov, Anne Bogart and Catherine Fitzmaurice. She is interested in the body’s memory of emotion and combining Chekhov’s highly physical techniques with Viewpoints to access this untapped resource.
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