{"id":2,"date":"2019-02-04T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/layers\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-01-29T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:25:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maranville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-816x1055.jpg 816w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-1250x1616.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/merrittlawrence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2019\/03\/headshot2019_0001-400x517.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lawrence Merritt has appeared on Broadway: <em>Applause, Evita, Pippin, Dear World, No Strings, On The Town<\/em>; in regional theater: <em>The Gin Game, You Can\u2019t Take<\/em><em>It<\/em><em>With You, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Little Foxes, The Crucible; <\/em>off-off Broadway: <em>The Miser, Hamlet, Tempes <\/em>t Project, A Life in the Theatre; in Television, Film and Cabaret: with <em>Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers.<\/em> His studies include: <em>British Ameri<\/em><em>can Drama Academy <\/em>at <em>Oxford; John Ba<\/em><em>rton, F<\/em><em>iona Shaw, <\/em>Deborah Warner, DavidLeveau. 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