Laura Zee Video & Digital Media

Video & Digital Media

Creator and host Laura Zee has produced 52 episodes of Word Up! since 2020.

Word Up! is a fun, festive, word-based collaboration between audience and artist. This Mad Libs-style communal storytelling features new performing artists and art mediums every time. More of a gathering than a show or a class, Word Up! is a low-pressure opportunity for community members to connect with each other and with a new art form. Laura Zee created this interactive storytelling practice in 2016 and developed it on cabaret stages before she adapted it to be a community program for The Old Globe theater during the lockdown of 2020. It launched as a livestreamed program with audience participation in the chat before moving in-person to become a hybrid program in 2021. Patricia McGregor originally suggested the name for the Word Up! program because of its word-based playfulness and collaborative focus beyond the theater arts.

Attendees have said about Word Up! . . .

“Thoughtful, thought-provoking and comforting entertainment.”

“I love meeting new artists of all types that we can now follow.”

“It made such a difference to be able to participate in something special.”

Laura is a warm, confident, and skilled on-camera presenter and trained film actor. Her specialities include live interviewing, improvising, and online viewer interaction. She is the creator of Word Up!, an online, in-person, and hybrid communal storytelling program through The Old Globe theatre’s arts engagement department as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She also does freelance voiceover recording for Vox Media, virtual reality, and more.

Television

〰️

Voiceover

〰️

Livestream

〰️

Podcasts

〰️

Television 〰️ Voiceover 〰️ Livestream 〰️ Podcasts 〰️

Community

〰️

Joy

〰️

Creativity

〰️

Community 〰️ Joy 〰️ Creativity 〰️

Laura Zee