Love's Labour's Lost - October 03 - October 19, 2025
iambe theatre ensemble
Cast Profiles
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Laura Leonardo Ownby
as Ferdinand, King of Navarre
Laura is thrilled to join iambe’s all-female Love’s Labour’s Lost. Favorite credits include Outside Mullingar (Rosemary, Jeff nomination, Best Production, Midsized), The Outsider (LuLu, Jeff nomination, Best Supporting Performer), Into the Earth With You (world premiere), Season’s Greetings (Phyllis), Defiance (Margaret Littlefield), Improbable Fiction (Jess), and Don’t Dress for Dinner (Suzanne) with Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, where she is a company member. Other credits include Noises Off (Belinda Blair, Theatre at the Center), Anne of Green Gables (Mrs. Blewett, Provision Theater), and Unnecessary Farce (Karen Brown, Jedlicka Performing Arts Center). Additional favorites: The Graduate (Mrs. Robinson), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Siobhan), Summer and Smoke (Alma Winemiller), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), and Hotel Paradiso (Marcelle Cot). Laura thanks her husband Jeff and their four children.
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Lisa Dawn
as Berowne
Lisa Dawn, EMC, is a proud company member of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, where she was nominated for an Equity Jeff Award for The Cake. Other BTE credits include Into the Earth with You, Clybourne Park, Time Stands Still, Naperville, Shining City, and Blithe Spirit. She starred in Oil Lamp Theatre’s one-woman show Bad Dates (Haley) and in The Revolutionists (Marie Antoinette). She has also performed in Los Angeles as Jess in A Long Way Down, to support suicide awareness. Other favorites: Communicating Doors (Poopay), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy), The 39 Steps (Annabella/Pamela/Margaret), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and As You Like It (Rosalind—Broadway World Award, Best Performer in a Play). Represented by Big Mouth Talent. LD thanks her husband, son, and dad - her real-life leading men - for supporting her while she played one.
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