LAURIE FINNEGAN (Resident Director) has directed several productions for Landmark Musicals over the years; The Fantasticks, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol (2018) to name a few. While she thoroughly enjoys directing, particularly large casts with children, she is most well known for her acting and singing. Laurie has performed professionally across the country and locally at several of the theaters in Albuquerque.
Laurie is an aficionado of Sondheim musicals. She has performed in: A Little Night Music (Petra), Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), Into the Woods (Witch), and Side by Side by Sondheim and Putting it Together. Although Laurie has performed numerous leading roles such as Mama Rose in Gypsy, Anna in The King and I, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Guinevere in Camelot, Aldonza in The Man of La Mancha, and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, she is perhaps best remembered for her portrayal of Patsy Cline in A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, which she reprised for Landmark in 2021. “It is an honor and a privilege to play Patsy Cline, to sing her songs, to tell her story.”
In addition to acting, singing and directing, Laurie is also a performing arts educator. She teaches classes in acting, auditioning, vocal production, and musical theater.
Laurie dedicates this production to her husband, Michael P. Finnegan, in loving memory.