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Pathway Pictures was founded under the pretense that there was no playbook to creating a career in the entertainment industry. Pathway believes in uplifting projects that inspire others to find a path and follow it by creating representation on screen and developing authentic characters of all genders and colors. If you can see it, then you can be it.

Lauren Elizabeth Harris is an award-winning actor, producer and founder of Pathway Pictures. She has portrayed numerous roles both on the stage and in film and television. She also wrote, produced, and co-starred in a feminist web-series titled It's A Girl Thing, that was highly regarded in over 14 international film festivals. Her film Defining Dodo won the LGBTQ Voices Award at the HBO Sponsored Latino Film Festival. Most recently, she directed a coming of age story set in Quaker School that she also wrote, acted, and produced, starring Jodi Benson (The Little Mermaid). She is currently in development on SXSW director Carol Brandt's next feature, The Gotham's "Series Creators To Watch" Bat Sheva Guez's next series, and received the Indian Paintbrush Grant for Cece Wheeler's upcoming short film. Her company has 4 other features and a series in development, three of which she wrote.

She currently works in development at Steve Buscemi's Olive Productions, and has worked for Voltage Pictures and Double Nickel. She is honored to be a board member of SheNYC, a member of Women in Film, associate member of WIP, and former New York Events Leader for Film Fatales.

She holds a BA in Acting and Spanish from the University of Southern California, and is an MFA Candidate in Creative Producing in Film from Columbia University. As an actor, she has trained at The British American Dramatic Academy in London, England, The Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, France, and The Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Judy Kain, Annie Grindlay, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, and is currently in the Writer's Lab of Groundlings.

Personally, Lauren has traveled to over 40 countries and studied in 5. She is an avid hiker & skier, a certified scuba diver, a self-proclaimed foodie and a dog mom to a rescue named Ernest "Ernie" Worthing. Represented by Untitled Entertainment (Theatrical), Zero Gravity Management (Literary), & Jolson Creative (Publicist).