Lauren has been a freelance stage manager, events technician and educator for 20 years. She has worked across the full breadth of theatre and performance including opera, circus, devised theatre, musicals, new writing and children’s theatre. Now predominantly based in London, Lauren combines her role as a Lecturer in Stage Management and Technical Theatre with her career in theatre and live events. Most recently she has taken over as DSM for Otherlands (Almeida Theatre), been CSM Job-Share on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Almeida), show caller for the Fireworks Festival at Alexandra Palace and a pyrotechnician for JustFX. Her next project is as CSM Job-Share for This is My Family (Southwark Playhouse). Her ability to combine these dual roles as educator and professional is thanks to having found a job-share partner, Anna-Maria Casson. Together they have shared the CSM role on 3 productions and This is My Family will be their fourth. Having honed their working practice, they have formed TwoCan Stage Manage, an organisation to promote not only themselves as a job-sharing team but to advocate for and support others in stage management and backstage roles who would like to work in a job-share.