Laura Rose is a stage/screen actress and director in
Charleston, SC, with special training in Shakespeare &
Theatre Education. Experience also includes fencing and
stage swordplay,equestrian sports, & Irish musical instruments.
Casting Directors for film and television please contact
Linda Eisen,Coastal Talent, info@coastaltalent.com. Theaters,
please email me at contact@laurarose.net. Thank you!
THEATRE (selected credits)
Founder and Artistic Director Holy City Shakespeare (HCS)
Director/Gertrude Hamlet HCS
Director/Viola Twelfth Night HCS
Director Much Ado About Nothing HCS
Steffy Blondell I Oughta Be in Pictures South of Broadway Theatre
Officer Randy Osteen Superior Donuts PURE Theatre
Lily Gibbs Fairy Tale Ending (staged read) South of Broadway Theatre
Petruchio Taming of the Shrew Theatre/VERV/
Timothea Stiles Sea Marks Footlight Theatre
Duchess of York Richard III College of Charleston
Understudy Titania/ Midsummer Night's Dream Folger Shakespeare Theatre,
Hippolyta/Peaseblossom DC
Grete Sight Unseen Fells Point Corner Theater
Yvonne Fouchet The Dinner Party (Neil Simon) Vagabond Theater, Balt
Livia Women Beware Women Shakespeare Institute, UK
[Multiple] Vera [Student reading] Signature Theater, DC
Helena Midsummer Night’s Dream St. Andrews College, NC
Storyteller; Maria/Juliet Valentine Gala St. Andrews College and
UNC-Wilmington, NC
Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore The Adding Machine St. Andrews College, NC
FILM
Timeless Margaret Willington (ST) Dir. Gabriel Garcia (Festival de
Cannes, May 18, 2004)
Dear, John Party Guest (BG) Dir. Lasse Hallestrom
Contradicting Erastus Customer (F) Taquet Films
Perfect Poison Tack Shop Owner (F) Illuminati Films
Syriana DOE Employee (BG) Warner Bros.,
Dir. Steven Gaghan
Mentor Univ. Trustee (BG) Dir. David Langlitz
TELEVISION
U.S.S. Cole Conspiracy Cathy Lopez (GS) Story House Prod.(History Channel)
Scattered Alice Shelter (L) Satellite Prod. (series considered by
SyFy and Oxygen)
Len Stoler Ford Commercial (SP)
Production coordinator, Prime Time Production Discovery Channel (2002-2005)
(Click to view program credits)
INDUSTRIALS & PRINT
Emily Hearn "Rooftop" Music Video
Massachusetts Surgery Center Patient (P) Sedgwick Productions
Easy Walls Wallpaper Mom (SP) Filmsters, Inc.
Clorox Cleaning Wand Print Subject Ketchum; Cade Martin Photography
FACULTY POSITIONS
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. Speech, For. Lang., & Theatre (2007-present)Trident Tech. College
Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Theatre (2005) College of Charleston
Visiting Faculty and Director, Dept. of Theatre (2001) St. Andrews College,NC
Acting Instructor, Children's Theater (2007-8) Wando Community Ed.
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Ph.D. Researcher, Shakespeare Studies The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-
(Dissertation Advisor, Prof. Michael Dobson) upon-Avon, UK
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) Rhetoric Catholic University of America
M.A. Shakespeare Studies The Shakespeare Institute, Straford-
(Thesis Advisor, Stanley Wells) upon-Avon, UK
Shakespeare Text and Performance UNC-Charlotte and CUA at Stratford-
upon-Avon and London, UK
Master Class in Acting Shakespeare RSC Co-Founder John Barton
Voice/Speaking Shakespeare Verse Cicely Berry, Andrew Wade,
Chris Marino, Cathleen McCarron
Shakespeare Performance Studies Russell Jackson, Robert Smallwood
Interpreting the Text, Stage Mvmnt Sue Lefton, Struan Leslie
Improvisation Meade Andrews
On-Camera Training Brenna McDonough
Monologue/Scene Work Brian Chavanne & Molly Dedham,CSA
Accent/Dialect Coaching Zoe Anastassiou, Fred Hutter
Musical Voice Pamela Bricker
Drama Theory, Perf. History Gary Jay Williams
Screenwriting/Playwriting Marc Lapadula, Mark Stein, Roland Reed
Acting and Movement Mark Parsons, Beverly Bloch, Rick Fiori
Ballet (15yrs) & Jazz Dance (5yrs) Gay Porter, Barbara Howse-Meadows
SPECIAL SKILLS
English Equestrian; Epee Fencing; Italian Stage Swordplay; Traditional and Irish Flute;
Bodhrán (Irish drum); Mezzo Soprano range; Dance; Drum kit; speak French with script;
Accents/dialects: British (Standard, RP, Midlands, North Wales, Liverpool [Scouse],
Manchester), Irish (Standard, Connacht), North Carolina/Southern US, French, German.
LAURA ROSE