Lauren and Markie

Lauren Ash-Morgan, actress and member of SSC's board of directors since 2011, is the Co-Artistic Director Founding of the new theater firm Speech of Fire. She served as Artistic director of Seoul Shakespeare Company from 2014 until 2019. The actress also worked for as a member of the SSC as a producer, costume/set design composer/music director and coach for text while serving as Artistic Direction. Though generally leading from within the ensemble of actors in her final year she made her debut as an actor (and lighting designer) for the SSC's King Lear. Acting credits comprise The Show Must Go Online's Richard II Prague Shakespeare Company's The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Ben Crystal at the Estates Theatre (Silvia/Ensemble) Seoul Shakespeare Company's The Merchant of Venice (Portia) Garage (Susan) The Winter's Tale (Paulina/Time) Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) Titus Andronicus (Tamora) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon) Hamlet (Gertrude) The Tempest (Alonsa), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) Shakespeare's Love and Despair (Lady Macbeth Trinculo Gertrude Tamora Desdemona) and The Gore and Madness of Shakespeare. Gore and Madness (Portia Queen Margaret Gertrude) Probationary Theatre Company's Popcorn (Farrah) Betrayal (Emma) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Eurasia Theatre Company's Richard III at the National Theater of Korea (Queen Elizabeth), and the independent film Amiss. Markie Post......................Markie Post is a noted American actress known for her roles as the public defender Christine Sullivan in NBC's sitcom Night Court the bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in ABC's drama series The Fall Guy and Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman in CBS's sitcom Hearts Afire. She has worked in several other series in addition to acting. In her early years, she was brought up in Walnut Creek with her siblings and poetry writer Marylee Post. She was a student at Las Lomas High School where she played cheerleading. The school she attended was Pomona College before graduating from Lewis & Clark College. Post was married prior to Stephen Knox. Michael A. Ross is her husband of 22 years since 1982. The couple has two daughters. Post is a great actor and an ideal mother and wife she is an inspiration to several Hollywood stars.