Lauren Antler is a comedian, writer and arts administrator . She has been an improviser since she learned of the existence of improv at 13 years old. After founding an improv group at Barnard College where she got her BA, Lauren was a writer, performer and producer of the Columbia Varsity Show. She was an NYC-based  comedian who did improv, sketch comedy and stand-up who trained at Second City, NYC.  She was a member of the NYC sketch comedy group, The Royal We, whose shows, "Does This War Make Me Look Fat?" and "Be All That You Can Buy," were performed all over the country before landing a pilot for TVLAND. Her duo show with her mother "What to Wear When You're Fighting the Patriarchy: Lessons From the Daughter of a Jewish Feminist" was performed at universities around the country.) Lauren worked as a producer at MTV and Nickelodeon, the Howard Stern Show and the Oxygen Network and was the Special Assistant to the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA) Executive Director, Diane Paulus and was most recently the Director of External Relations at Circus Smirkus. 

Lauren lives in Montpelier with her daughter and husband, two dogs and a cat who lives in the linen closet.