J.P. McLAURIN
Originally from Greenville, SC, J.P. serves as the General Manager at the Tony Award-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. At Woolly, he worked on the pre-Broadway engagement of Alex Edelman's Just for Us (now streaming on Max), the national tour of Madeline Sayet's Where We Belong, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury's Public Obscenities, which was subsequently named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist. His career has taken him to theatres across the country, including the Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), and Synetic Theater (Arlington, VA). In 2019, he was the inaugural Allen Lee Hughes Leadership and Business Fellow at Arena Stage. His work as a producer has been featured in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Post & Courier.
Directing credits include "Fire Mountain" (Los Angeles Central Public Library, Raze the Space); Grounded (Piccolo Spoleto Festival Selection, Boots on the Ground Theatre); Assassins (Asst. Director, Theater Latté Da); Hamlet (Asst. Director, Park Square Theatre); Three Sisters, Marisol (Coastal Carolina University); "Catatonic" (Atlantic Stage's New Voices PlayFest); and The Giving Tree (Fine Arts Center). He has studied Viewpoints with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and was a part of the 2017 cohort for Director's Lab West -- a training program presented in partnership with the Pasadena Playhouse and Boston Court Pasadena.
Acting credits include over 20+ productions with SC Children's Theatre since 2002; Love's Labour's Lost and Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Big Love, Pride & Prejudice, and Picnic (CCU); Assassins and The Who’s Tommy (College of Charleston); Lincoln’s Last Day (Smithsonian Channel) and “Identity” (The CW).
He is a proud alum of Coastal Carolina University, the Fine Arts Center, and SCCT's Theatre Arts Conservatory.
When he's not toiling away in a cubicle or a rehearsal studio, he can be found in the gym, in a coffee shop, or at the LEGO store. He's also a Virgo-Libra cusp, if that means anything to you.