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Lauren is a multidisciplinary designer, event producer, and art director working across theatre, short film, immersive experiences, and commercial brand activations. Formed by a background in Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University, she uses a narrative-led approach to bring clarity, high-end aesthetics, and logistics to live environments.

Her versatile practice spans set and costume design, commercial styling, and creative producing. She has delivered ambitious projects for major institutions and global brands alike, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Casio, Amazon, The Crown Estate, Sky, and The Body Shop. Whether designing for national stages like Leicester Curve or Royal & Derngate, or producing and styling large-scale public events for Moflin by Casio or Amazon, Lauren excels at crafting meticulous, detail-oriented, immersive worlds with a strong focus on storytelling that challenge the boundaries between audience and performance.

Deeply committed to a collaborative and socially engaged practice, Lauren has worked alongside professional creatives, diverse community groups, young people, and individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system, excelling at creating original work made with and for participants. She has experience in running her own Community Interest Company alongside producing events focused on activation, accessibility and ambitious live experiences.

Whether in theatres, in public spaces, or on the streets, her work is driven by a desire to connect audiences to the arts through collaboration, bold storytelling, and immersive design.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“The set design, by Lauren Connolly, is remarkable…As the curtains open, the audience collectively goes “ooo” as the city looms over everybody, immediately setting the tone before a single line is spoken.”
– Philip Lowe, East Midlands Theatre

“The utility set…with subtle but clever changes transport us. Lauren Connolly was the designer and an excellent job she did.”
– Kevin Doig, Sardines

“The imaginative set is the perfect backdrop to the story.  The clever use of set…works perfectly.”
 – Wendy Cook, Ipswich24

“The set design (Lauren Connolly)…has so much personality that really shines through“
– Jordan Potts, Adventures in Theatreland