Laura Welsh

Biography

Laura Welsh has been working professionally across the country for 20 years. After earning her undergraduate degree at Baldwin Wallace University and her master’s degree at the Theater School at DePaul, she became a company member with Great Lakes Theater and its sister companies, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. She was the first woman in the company's history to play the title role in Hamlet; her other notable roles include Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Rosie in Mamma Mia!, Viola in Twelfth Night, Cassius in Julius Caesar; Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and over a decade of appearances in A Christmas Carol. Her educational directing credits include Measure for Measure, Bare, Troilus and Cressida, Breach, Henry VI: Part 1, Henry VI: Part 2, and Richard III. Welsh is also a certified intimacy director who has worked extensively in the Cleveland area.