Megan Lawrence (born ) is an American actress best known for her roles
on Broadway. Among other honors, she has been nominated for a Tony
Award. She has also appeared Off-Broadway, in regional theatre and on
television.Lawrence grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was
music professor at Towson University, and her mother taught lower
school music. She attended Cincinnati Conservatory for a year and then
returned to Baltimore to attend classes at Towson, work as a waitress
and consider whether to begin a career in theatre. By the early s,
Lawrence began to perform in children's theatre and then adult
musicals at a dinner theatre in Maryland.At the Signature Theatre
(Arlington, Virginia) in the s, Lawrence played, among other roles,
Marta in Company, Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods and Sally
Bowles in Cabaret (), earning Helen Hayes Award nominations for all
three roles and winning for Into the Woods for Outstanding Supporting
Actress, Resident Musical. She played the daughter in Kander and Ebb's
Over and Over in .She played Frenchy in a Grease national tour and
made her Broadway debut as a replacement for various characters in the
original Broadway production of Les Misérables, playing Eponine in
and . She was in the original Off-Broadway cast of Urinetown and
returned to the show on Broadway as a replacement, eventually playing
Little Sally in and .
on Broadway. Among other honors, she has been nominated for a Tony
Award. She has also appeared Off-Broadway, in regional theatre and on
television.Lawrence grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was
music professor at Towson University, and her mother taught lower
school music. She attended Cincinnati Conservatory for a year and then
returned to Baltimore to attend classes at Towson, work as a waitress
and consider whether to begin a career in theatre. By the early s,
Lawrence began to perform in children's theatre and then adult
musicals at a dinner theatre in Maryland.At the Signature Theatre
(Arlington, Virginia) in the s, Lawrence played, among other roles,
Marta in Company, Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods and Sally
Bowles in Cabaret (), earning Helen Hayes Award nominations for all
three roles and winning for Into the Woods for Outstanding Supporting
Actress, Resident Musical. She played the daughter in Kander and Ebb's
Over and Over in .She played Frenchy in a Grease national tour and
made her Broadway debut as a replacement for various characters in the
original Broadway production of Les Misérables, playing Eponine in
and . She was in the original Off-Broadway cast of Urinetown and
returned to the show on Broadway as a replacement, eventually playing
Little Sally in and .
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