Lauren is often found on the radio and podcasts. She regularly produces features for the BBC radio and hosted season one of the podcast Stroke of Genius. She loves
making long and short form audio documentaries. Whether that is in a linear or immersive way, as long as the emphasis is on what we are hearing. She founded the immersive audio studio Sunday Blue.
Lauren is the Creator and Co-Director of PILGRIM, an interactive audio experience based on the Camino de Santiago, the first ever BOSE AR storytelling project, which premiered at IDFA in 2018. She produced the audio for These Sleepless Nights an audio first Magic Leap project which premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2019.
She has a PhD in History of Science with a focus on Oral History and was a Welcome Trust Imperial Media Fellow. She is also an Artist in Residence at the Made in New York Media Centre in Brooklyn where she runs workshops in immersive audio and is a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies (ISET) lab.
She lives in Brooklyn.
“..an accomplished radio reporter and leader in the field of immersive audio.”
— Gareth Mitchell, BBC Presenter, Digital Planet
“...an emergent voice within the ranks of storytelling: she has a unique skillset blending radio and immersive technology”
— Dan Tucker, Curator, Alternate Realities, Sheffield Doc Fest
“…she has expanded the imagination of audio storytelling into the technological and experimental realm.”
— Caspar Sonnen, Curator, DocLAb, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)