Lorella Loftus is originally from Glasgow, Scotland and has been active in the Austin theatre and Celtic communities as a performer, director, and dialect coach. In addition to the VORTEX Repertory Company she has worked with several theatre organizations including Rude Mechanicals, Austin Shakespeare, Zachary Scott Theatre and the State Theatre. Lorella serves as Literary Manager for VORTEX Repertory Company and has served on the Board of Directors for the Austin Celtic Association. In 2002 she founded the Austin Renaissance Theatre Company.

Lorella was interviewed for the Austin Chronicle in an article by Hannah Kenah in which three Austin theatre folk talked about Austin theater in 2006. Read the Interview

Appearances at the VORTEX

Performer

• The Wife of Bath’s Tale
• The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
• 4:48 Pschosis
• Hamlet
• Phaedra's Love
• Holy Well and Sacred Flame

Director

• Troades (Assistant Director)
• Accidental Death of An Anarchist
• Phaedra's Love (Co-director)
• 4:48 Psychosis (Co-director)
• Medea
• Coriolanus

Lorella heads up Renaissance Austin