Laura Killeen
She/Her
Laura Killeen is a theatremaker and director from London who graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, NYC, where she was awarded the Anne Meacham Memorial Scholarship. Laura received an MA with Distinction in Text & Performance from RADA & Birkbeck, University of London.
In New York, she spent a year interning and working at The Juilliard School Drama Division under Founding Artistic Director of Signature Theatre, Jim Houghton. She also co-founded and co-hosted Penny Lou’s Corn Show - the underground, all-American, queer variety show - with drag queen Penny Lou Chrysler.
She has directed and co-created shows at the New Diorama Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Brixton House, The Pleasance Theatre, Cambridge Junction, Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Exchange Twickenham, Underbelly and Summerhall. Her work has been nominated for The Offies and shortlisted for The Untapped Award.
Laura regularly works with playwrights, solo performers, stand-up comedians and theatre companies as a dramaturg.
A published writer, her work has been performed in Tel Aviv, London and NYC.
Her solo performance in Homewrecka won Best Experimental Film at the Syracuse International Film Festival 2010, garnering such reviews as “she traumatized me”- Ed Harris. Other film credits include Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Art of Getting By, Me and Orson Welles and the award winning short film English. She has performed in numerous plays in London, in NYC and at three edfringes. She has also performed in radio, performance art and music videos. She has been performing with Degenerate Fox since its inception and was Co-Artistic Director and Managing Director of the company for 5 years.
Laura has been the Artistic Director at the Rosemary Branch Theatre since the summer of 2021. She programmes work year round as well as for the festivals she has created there - Look for the Woman, Gather Together Storytelling Festival and The Curious Puppets Festival.
She is a winner of the Edinburgh Untapped Award 2025.