Laura Westray Bache

About

I am a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Dramatic Art and double minoring in Musical Theatre Performance and Writing for the Screen and Stage. I am passionate about the use of theatre for enacting social change and understanding history.

Experience

• PlayMakers Repertory Company at PlayMakers Repertory Company
  Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  - Macbeth, dir. Tracy Bersley Ensemble, u/s: Witch 2, Witch 3, Donalbain, Gentlewoman, and Young Siward

• Kenan Theatre Company (4 yrs)
  • Actor
    Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    - Bella in Big Love, dir. Birgitta Victorson - Florinda in Into the Woods, dir. Douglas Hall - Gerty Fail in Failure: A Love Story, dir. Kristy Dodson - Jessi in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) {revised} (again), dir. Kate Jones - Nestra in the world premiere of Nia, dir. Ashley Olive Teague

  • Producer
    2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    - Producer, Board Member

  • Assistant Stage Manager
    Aug 2022 - Oct 2022 · 3 mos

    - Assistant Stage Manager, Dance Nation, dir. Jessica Natalie Smith

• Acting Shakespeare Student at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 · 2 mos

  - Helen in All's Well that Ends Well, dir. Nick Hutchison

• Actor at Forerunner
  Jun 2024 - Jul 2024 · 2 mos

  - Principal Actor in Horses, Horsepower & Hollers (Kentucky Tourism Digital Commercial Campaign) dir. Chris Young, producer Andrew Swanson

• PlayMakers Repertory Company (1 yr 2 mos)
  • Sound Board Operator
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2024 · 2 mos

    - Sound Board Operator, Fat Ham, dir. Jade King-Carroll

  • Stage Manager for Ground Floor Productions
    2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

    - Stage Manager, The Lifespan of a Fact, dir. Katherine Wilkerson - Assistant Stage Manager, Grand Concourse, dir. Aurelia Belfield/Tia James