Lauren Elizabeth Harris(I)

Lauren Elizabeth Harris is an award-winning actor, producer and founder of Pathway Pictures. She has starred in numerous roles on film, television and on the stage. Pathway's projects include Pink Moon (directed by SXSW alum Carol Brandt and starring Blu Del Barrio of Star Trek), Bat Sheva Guez's Babies of Luna Park (The Gotham's "Series Creators to Watch"), Sheepwell, (directed by Kim Caicedo and starring Connor Paolo, Michole Briana White and Alix Lapri), Friends Wanted, starring Jodi Benson (The Little Mermaid), and Cece Wheeler's Winners and Losers, which received the Indian Paintbrush Grant. She also wrote, produced, and co-starred in a feminist web-series titled It's A Girl Thing, that was highly regarded in over 14 international film festivals. Her film Defining Dodo won the LGBTQ Voices Award at the HBO Sponsored Latino Film Festival. Lauren also received the prestigious Arthur Krim Memorial Award for distinction in Creative Producing.

She has worked for Steve Buscemi's Olive Productions, Sarah Jessica Parker's Pretty Matches, Voltage Pictures and Double Nickel. She is honored to be a board member of SheNYC, a member of Women in Film, associate member of WIP, and former New York Events Leader for Film Fatales.

She holds a BA in Acting and Spanish from the University of Southern California, and an MFA in Creative Producing in Film from Columbia University. As an actor, she has trained at The British American Dramatic Academy in London, England, The Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, France, and The Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Judy Kain, Annie Grindlay, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, and is currently in the Writer's Lab of Groundlings.

Personally, Lauren has traveled to over 40 countries and studied in 5. She is an avid hiker & skier, a certified scuba diver, a self-proclaimed foodie and a dog mom to a rescue named Ernest "Ernie" Worthing