Lauren Brooke Ellis is a director and stage manager from Aiken, South Carolina. She graduated from the University of South Carolina Aiken in 2014 and has since worked professionally in theatres there, Augusta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; and now in Roanoke, Virginia. Lauren completed her New Play Directing Certificate from Hollins University in the summer of 2017 and is completing her Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting degree there. She was one of two Brandon DuMonde Memorial Scholarship recipients for 2018 and the SETC Leighton M. Ballew Scholarship recipient for 2016.  Currently, Lauren is the chair of the Ten-Minute Play Festival for SETC and co-runs the Centerpiece Reading Series on the Waldron Stage in Roanoke.