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...