Senior Vocal Coach

Lauren James Ray

Lauren trained at The Sylvia Young Theatre School and began her professional performing career at 18 in the West End musical Les Miserables, understudying Eponine and Cossette. She went on to tour the UK with the Rogers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, understudying the roles of Nellie Forbush and Liat, and then returned to the West End in the hit musical Wicked, understudying Nessarose.

Lauren was part of the original cast recording of Broken Wings the musical, and appeared in the original production at The Theatre Royal Haymarket in London.

After a few years away from Wicked, she was asked to return to the production to understudy the additional role of Glinda, and she counts herself extremely lucky to have been involved in the production for well over a decade.

Lauren took on the leading role of Rebecca in Imagine This at the Union Theatre, then played Gail in Teechers at the Guildford Fringe, before going on to lead the production of Stephen Sondheim’s Putting it Together in the role of The Wife, at The Hope Mill Theatre.

Each Christmas Lauren performs with The West End at Christmas cast, touring the UK with a festive show of musical theatre and Christmas classics.

She can be heard on the original cast recording of The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Webborn and Finn, playing the role of Amelia, alongside Emmy award winning Hannah Waddingham, musical theatre royalty Ramin Karimloo, Matt Croke, Christine Allado, and Marvel’s Fra Fee – Lauren also appeared in the concert version of The Clockmaker’s Daughter at Cadogan Hall.