Louise is a classically trained actress, who has worked in Regional Theaters as well as many New York productions for over a decade . She is based both in New York and the Berkshires. Most recently she played the lead role of Emilie du Chatelet in a regional production of Karen Zacarias’s marvelous play Legacy of Light at Catalyst Theater in Plainfield NJ (Fall 2025); earlier that year, she had portrayed Katrin Buergermann in the off-Broadway premier of Yide Cai’s play Rice Eaters at AMT Theater (Summer 2025) Other recent stage roles include Anfisa in Chekhov’s Three Sisters directed by Talia Feldberg at Columbia University (Fall 2024), Soothsayer in WAM theatre’s devised piece “Fragments of Outside” at the Mount in Lenox MA (Summer 2024), and the lead role of. Beatrice in Wendy Biller’s operatic, genre-bending play by the same name at the Cell Theatre in New York (Fall 2023). In-between, she played the lead role of Geraldine in Keshav Srinivasan’s feature horror film “The Flesh People,” which was filmed in spring of 2024 and has now been fully edited and is ready for submission to film festivals.

Other favorite roles include Miss Peake in The Royal Family (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Queen Gertrude in Hamlet (Hudson Theatre Works) and Polonius (Alpha Theater NYC), as well as Escalus in Measure for Measure (EBT NYC), Mrs. Gabor in Wedekind’s Spring Awakening also at Alpha Theater, and Helen in O’Negative (Hudson Guild Theater NYC). But naming those is almost doing injustice to all other beloved roles in both classical and contemporary plays (see resume).

Indeed, whether they are large or small, Louise approaches and embraces all roles with unlimited passion, curiosity, research, subtlety, emotional vulnerability, openness, professionalism, and hard work. She desires nothing more than to give all characters a believable, compelling humanity. Naturalistic acting was at the center of her training with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock at The Barrow Group, where she completed the 1.5-year professional conservatory program. During the One-Month Intensive Program at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, she worked on all aspects of Shakespearean acting and also, more broadly, on breathing and forging deep emotional connections to roles and texts. As a long-standing member of the Letter of Marque theater company in Manhattan, she is well versed in improvisation, ensemble work, and devised theater.

As a bilingual actor (English and German) she has been able to work on some roles that were multilingual or bilingual, most notably her ensemble role in a multilingual devised theater adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Marco Millions (Target Margin Theater), a bilingual role in Schwarz Gemacht (New Jersey Theater Center), and some audio work in German for Edge Studio in Manhattan When not acting, Louise has been writing (tv, film, stage) and also giving tours at and doing research for the Lower East Side Tenement museum. She is also actively involved in local theaters in the Berkshires, notably as a board member at Northampton’s PIC initiative, and a literary committee member for WAM theater in Lenox, MA.