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"Laura Michele Erle is beautiful and empathetic as Margaret Leavitt, demonstrating both her considerable acting talent, as well as a gift for singing and playing the piano."

Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review
"Laura Michele Erle lived The Woman’s wild journey, bringing the audience along as she shed her innocence as a conservative parson’s daughter in favor of a motherly governess. Erle was convincing as that shell cracked and a deeper and earthier character emerged. Erle’s dimensional performance was at once sympathetic and unnerving."

Jim Lowe, Times Argus
“Laura Michele Erle plays a sympathetic young governess with pure Victorian pluckiness. . . She avoids melodrama and skirts the edge of hysteria rather than wringing out superficial emotion. The play gives her few actions to indicate a descent toward madness, but Erle is a fascinating blank canvas . . .”

Alex Brown, Seven Days
"As Olivia, Laura Michele Erle is coy and self-absorbed, so comfortable in sunglasses that we know she's secretly aching to be seen. Her craving for attention comes to life when Cesario appears, and Erle hits just the right note of does-he-like-me desperation."

Alex Brown, Seven Days
"Laura Michele Erle reveals unexpected depths in Leavitt's sister, Margie."

Kelly Kleiman, Chicago Reader
“Laura Michele Erle is wonderful as Vesper Kind and the Ice Queen.”

Carol Moore, Spotlight on the Lake
"There are two almost vaudevillian turns that stand out and nearly stop the show. These are Mrs. Fanny Dashwood's reaction when she learns that her brother is engaged to a woman with no money or status. Laura Michele Erle in the role vents her frustration hilariously."

Margaret Harrington, “Jane Austen in Vermont” blog
"Laura Michele Erle nicely fills the shoes of Henrietta's sister Margaret . . . Erle does a strong job of showing both love and resentment. "

Rikki Lee Travolta, Life and Times

After playing Amaryllis in The Music Man, I decided at age eight that theater was what I was meant to do. Little Laura would be thrilled to know that dream came true! After getting my B.F.A. in Acting, I spent 3 years post-grad living in Manhattan, though most of that time I was away on regional contracts (Mac-Haydn, Lost Nation Theater). During the pandemic, I moved to Chicago, and have felt so welcomed by this wonderful community of theater artists!

My Story

I am drawn to works that are a blend between classical and contemporary. I’m often cast as the quirky ingenue, but have portrayed the mean girl-villain and many creepy, otherworldly characters too. I am a classically-trained mezzo soprano with a musical theater and dance background. My collegiate training also had a classical focus with an annual Shakespeare festival; acting methodologies included Uta Hagen, Meisner, Stanislavsky, Viewpoints, Laban Movement, Linklater Voice Method and Theatre of the Oppressed.

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"Laura Michele Erle is beautiful and empathetic as Margaret Leavitt, demonstrating both her considerable acting talent, as well as a gift for singing and playing the piano."

"As Olivia, Laura Michele Erle is coy and self-absorbed, so comfortable in sunglasses that we know she's secretly aching to be seen. Her craving for attention comes to life when Cesario appears, and Erle hits just the right note of does-he-like-me desperation."

"Laura Michele Erle reveals unexpected depths in Leavitt's sister, Margie."

“Laura Michele Erle is wonderful as Vesper Kind and the Ice Queen.”

"There are two almost vaudevillian turns that stand out and nearly stop the show. These are Mrs. Fanny Dashwood's reaction when she learns that her brother is engaged to a woman with no money or status. Laura Michele Erle in the role vents her frustration hilariously."

"Laura Michele Erle nicely fills the shoes of Henrietta's sister Margaret . . . Erle does a strong job of showing both love and resentment. "

My Story

Laura Michele Erle