Background
Lawrence grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was music professor at Towson University, and her mother taught grade-school music
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She attended Cincinnati Conservatory for a year and then returned to Baltimore to attend classes at Towson, work as a waitress and consider whether to begin a career in theatre.
Career
She has also appeared Office-Broadway, in regional theatre and on television By the early 1990s, Lawrence began to perform in children"s theatre and then adult musicals at a dinner theatre in Maryland. At Washington District of Columbia"s Signature Theatre in the 1990s, Lawrence played, among other roles, Marta in Company and Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods and Sally Bowles in Cabaret, earning Helen Hayes Award nominations for all three roles and winning for Into the Woods.
She then played Frenchy in a Grease national tour and made her Broadway debut as a replacement for various characters in the original Broadway production of Les Misérables, playing Eponine in 1998 and 1999.
She was in the original Office-Broadway cast of Urinetown and returned to the show on Broadway as a replacement, eventually playing Little Sally in 2002 and 2003. Regional roles have included Hillary Clinton in Monica! In 2005, she was in Two Gentlemen of Verona.
On television, she has appeared as Joyce on the television soap One Life to Live. She also played Mother and Buddahdalirama in the 2009 revival of Hair.
