Lauren Gauge

Lauren Gauge is an award-winning actor, writer, director, and performer of plays and poetry. She is a queer woman and mother from a working-class background and creates performances with and to celebrate the underrepresented communities of which she is a part. Her appearances include The Palace theatres of Belarus and Russia where she won the Best Lead Actor award for the role she originated in Red Room; UK festivals, Soho Theatre, RSC, Tate St Ives, Penzance Literature festival, Apples and Snakes, and London Live as Awards Panel Judge for 'The Offies' theatre awards. Gauge’s debut gig-theatre play with beat-boxing, The Unmarried – which Gauge also performs – originally won Lyric Hammersmith x Hiive new writing award, was developed with BAC beatboxers and premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, winning Outstanding Performance Miro Magazine. The Unmarried is a rave and riot challenging societal expectations celebrating female sexuality. Gauge performs regularly with all-female Cornwall poetry collective Mor Poets and delivers writer-performer and making your own show workshops. She was selected for Minack Theatre's Emerging Playwright Training Programme in 2023 who subsequently commissioned her short play, The Point. Gauge was shortlisted for Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective 2023 and Highly Commended in Poet Laureate of Penryn competition published by Cornwall Poetry Library, 2025. The Unmarried is currently in development with dramaturgical support from Off West End Plays and Playwrights through their Adopt a Playwright Award.