Lauren Mariasoosay

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Equal parts goofy and earnest, Lauren Mariasoosay is a self-made artist who grew up in the humble town of Tracy, California. Born of one immigrant from Canada, and another from Malaysia, Lauren’s journey as a first-gen has shaped her entire life from adolescence to adulthood.

Sporting her little bob haircut (a rite of passage for every Indian kid), she took to the dance floor at age 3 and never looked back. She began dancing and acting competitively, winning multiple national titles in her young career, participating in dance team at school, and the yearly performance of the nutcracker at her local theatre. The show that gave her the bug? Like so many others, of course, the Wizard of Oz her senior year of high school.

Lauren decided to be daring and start her singing journey by earning a BFA in Musical Theatre. She booked her first gig as a main stage performer/ principal vocalist at The Disneyland Resort to support herself through college. Whispers of a star-rising performance at 5 Star Theatricals in 2019 led Lauren to be scouted by her now agent and manager who launched her into the professional world. After graduating in the sigh-inducing year of 2020, the impending anxiety that theatre would never return was imminent. If her only claim to fame was her R2D2 impression…then so be it. But despite the odds, Lauren went on to join her first national tour of CATS in 2021, then Aladdin, the sit-down production of SIX in Toronto, and now Hamilton.

Crossing off dream role after dream role, Lauren continues to elevate her craft hand-in-hand with her humility and grit as each experience molds her character.