“a director’s dream, beautifully responsive and receptive to direction, Larissa Crafford-Lazarus is a unique and highly distinguished young performer, a multi-talented theater artist and a true creative force.”
— Ellen Parks, Emmy Award nominated casting director
Larissa Crafford-Lazarus is a London-based South African actor.
She holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Professional Acting from LAMDA.
Larissa first played Beethoven’s piano concerto in D with an orchestra at the age of 8 and continued to perform as a piano soloist until the end of her high school years. She was simultaneously dancing principal roles in ballets such as The Nutcracker, Giselle and The Sleeping Beauty with the Youth Dance Company of Tshwane in Pretoria.
She has been seen on stage in South Africa, Europe, the UK and the United States. She made her feature film debut as Diane in the 2021 remake of the 80’s slasher Slumber Party Massacre.
Larissa is a founding member of Mulch Productions where she is a writer, composer, performer and producer for their inaugural production Dead & Kicking which tells the true story of a French woman, declared legally dead, fighting to prove that she is alive.
“She is an exciting, truthful actor, physically and expressively different from any actress I can think of in the public eye at the moment.”
— Mimi Kennedy, star of CBS-TV’s hit sitcom “Mom”