Biography

With over 2 Billion views online, Lauren Francesca has been described by Streaming Media as "a YouTube superstar." Lauren's has acted in have been featured on 20/20, Tosh.0, O'Reilly Factor, FOX News, TruTV's Funniest Moments, Comedy Central and more. Entertainment Weekly said Lauren's "Lady Gaga Telephone Parody," was the "funniest Internet phenomenon of the moment." Lauren has over 2 million followers on Facebook and 3 million followers total. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Lauren grew up in a family of award winning Broadway performers. At New York Tech, Lauren was President of both the Honor Society and The Women's Association, receiving awards for her work with the community. She graduated Magma Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Pre-Med Biology. After college, Lauren focused on acting, studying improv at UCB. It quickly paid off when Lauren was cast in the hit webseries, "The Key of Awesome." This led to her appearance on 20/20, a role in an FX pilot, and a national AT&T campaign. She also appeared in numerous viral hit videos from College Humor, Funny or Die, Totally Sketch and Bo Burnham. Tubefilter described her as, "a chameleon of parody, morphing from pop-sexy to nerdy-cute almost effortlessly." Lauren was featured in one of Netflix's top comedies, Bad Parents. Additionally, she's just wrapped starring roles in three upcoming independent films; Muck, Lucky Number, and Catskill Park. As a producer, Lauren has helped produce digital projects that have been sold to, BET, Comedy Central, and Stars. She has sold licensees for her viral video clips all over the world. She produced a short that was accept into Cannes Film Festival. Then her original show concept Like Me, (co-authored by Sideways writer Rex Pickett) was accepted to the "Just for Laughs" pitch competition. And her pilot Appland was accepted into YouTube's "Women in Comedy" program were she was mentored by Elizabeth Banks and Youtube helped produce. Recently, Lauren has been crowd funding features and has produced eight features in the last two years, directing the last three of them. Lauren has worked as an influencer with AT&T, Comedy Central, FOX, Universal