Originally from Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Lauren is a lyric soprano and a current Master’s of Music student at the University of Tennessee. During the 2025-2026 season, Lauren appeared as Frasquita in Knoxville Opera’s production of Carmen and the Vixen in University of Tennessee Opera Theater’s The Cunning Little Vixen. During the summer of 2026, Lauren appeared as the Soldier in The Falling and the Rising by Zach Redler and covered the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Janiec Opera Company’s Brevard Music Center.