Actor, director and dramaturg in New Zealand
Lara Macgregor is an actor, director, dramaturg, photographer and performance coach in New Zealand.
Education.
Macgregor studied acting in New York City with Uta Hagen, Anthony Abeson and Tony Greco and subsequently worked for ten years as an actor in the U.S. 
She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Directing from The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney and has directed over 40 productions throughout America, Australia and New Zealand.
Directing career.
In 2009, Macgregor was appointed Associate Artistic Director at the Court Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand. She directed a number of plays at The Forge, as the Court's studio theatre was known for a time, including (in 2009) Dave Armstrong's "The Tutor" (a New Zealand comedy, and the first production at The Forge)"" and Dean Parker's "The Perfumed Garden" (2010). 
In 2010, she was appointed Artistic Director at the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin, a position she held until late 2015. Since that year, she has worked as a freelance director at the Court Theatre, and for Wow! Productions in Dunedin, for whom she directed Annie Baker's Pulitzer prize-winning play "The Flick".
Macgregor's productions at the Fortune Theatre include:
For the Court Theatre, at The Forge, Macgregor has directed:
At Court Theatre MainStage, Macgregor has directed:
At Circa Theatre, Wellington, she had directed:
Acting career.
Macgregor has played leading roles in many productions at the Court Theatre, including Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" (2016), Thilde Forster in Michelanne Forster's "Don't Mention Casablanca" (2010), "When the Rain Stops Falling" by Andrew Bovell (2014) - all three directed by Ross Gumbley; M'Lynn in "Steel Magnolias" (2017, director Gregory Cooper), Annie Wilkes in "Misery" (2018, director Dan Bain) and Fran in "Things I Know To Be True" by Andrew Bovell (2021, director Shane Bosher). The latter play had a season at Circa Theatre in Wellington, where Macgregor has also appeared in "Di and Viv and Rose" by Amelia Bullmore (2020, directed by Stephanie McKellar-Smith) and "Burn Her" by Sam Brooks (2019, directed by Katherine McRae). She played Rosemary in John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar" (2015, Fortune Theatre, director Lisa Warrington).
She has appeared in a number of film and TV shows, including "Clickbait" (Netflix, 2021), an eight-part thriller miniseries, and "This Town" (2020).
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