Erica McLaughlin

Mastering the Work of Your Art

<div><div><img src="http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m562/ericamtheatre/mdlogo-1.jpg" alt="" align="none"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">Erica Lauren McLaughlin is a professional actress and expert in social networking, and the lead consultant at Maryland Monroe LLC, a consulting service that helps theater companies and individual artists "master the work of their art".&nbsp;</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Personalized</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">&nbsp;services include social media coaching brand development, image consulting, career management, networking help, and more.</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">&nbsp;As an actress, she has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center, HERE Arts Center, PS 122, Gene Frankel Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Theatre Project, and more, and as the star of the film Cold April,currently touring the festival circuit. As a playwright, she received the 2001 National ACT-SO gold medal for playwriting, and her plays have been produced at the Mobtown Theatre in Baltimore, the Capital Fringe Festival, and at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. A well-rounded theatre artist, Erica also teaches classes in acting and puppetry.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Although a trained performer, she has a knack for the business of theatre. Erica is former Managing Director of the Unmentionable Theatre Company of Baltimore, a socially conscious theatre troupe which is comprised of members all under the age of 30. Serving as the Patron Services Coordinator at TKTS Times Square, Erica is a premiere social media source for theatre information. With a combined online following of approximately 4,000, Erica has served as the host for several social networking events in NYC.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Erica is a former member of the NAACP National Board of Directors, the world’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, where she represented youth advocates from DC, MD and VA. As a youth organizer, she has been interviewed by several local and national publications, and has executed many successful civil rights campaigns, including a 2006 rally on Capitol Hill of over 700 youth to support the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, and writing and delivering the obituary at the famed 2007 “Funeral for the “N” Word in Detroit Michigan. While at the NAACP, she studied organizational branding each year at Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program.&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Erica doesn’t see her activism and consulting as separate from her career as an artist. Playwright William Inge summed up Erica McLaughlin’s diverse passions best, saying, “"Theatre is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theatre.”"</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><br></div></div>

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