Lauren Ludwig is an award-winning immersive theater creator and founding member of Los Angeles experiential company Capital W. With Capital W, Lauren created Hamlet-Mobile, a migratory adaptation of Shakespeare’s play staged in and around a cargo van. Hamlet-Mobile won “Best Game Design” at the IndieCade Festival of Independent Games and was published in the anthology Best Plays from American Theater Festivals 2015. Lauren also created Red Flags, a one-on-one audience encounter that recreates the experience of a bad first date. Red Flags was named “Best Overall Immersive Work” by the Immersive Critic’s Circle and has toured to San Francisco and Denver. Most recently, Lauren completed an immersive commission for the Denver Center, in collaboration with the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, exploring grief, ritual, and transformation through the lens of a blind date at the museum.

Lauren regularly works in television and film. She was a writer on the branching-narrative interactive series EXP for Eko, and has created projects for FX, NBC Universal, Participant Media, and truTV. She recently directed two episodes of the Sony Crackle half-hour series Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy.

Lauren is the current Director of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. She is a passionate educator and has spoken about immersive work and experience design at venues across the U.S., including the Immersive Design Summit, the University of Southern California, and the University of Illinois. Lauren is also a founder and creative guide at Wayward, a Canadian retreat for womxn artists. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and grew up in Syracuse, NY.