Lauren Noll

Biography

Lauren Noll is an L.A. based actor-director from the mountains of East Tennessee. Her feature directorial debut, SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT, is a female-driven ensemble comedy highlighting three women navigating the tensions of their cross-cultural relationships and the pressures of modern life, friendship, and womanhood. It will premiere at SXSW 2026.

Hailing from a rich background in theatre, she earned her graduate degree in Acting at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) before her focus pivoted toward film. Lauren first stepped behind the camera with the short drama HONOR, an intimate, autobiographically inspired story about coming of age, coming...