Wed, Aug 05
|High Low
Embalming Play
Actor. Embalmer. Woman. Existential crisis. Lauren needs help handling her insides…and preserving what remains. Embalming Play is a dark, autobiographical comedy inspired by the playwright’s real experiences working as both an actor and licensed embalmer in Los Angeles.
Time & Location
Aug 05, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
About the Event
RATING | Rated R
Genre: Theatre
Warnings: Violence; Depictions of death, details of the embalming process, and disturbing images.
Lauren Eileen Henke is an actor, woman, and licensed embalmer. This probably wasn’t the triple threat you were expecting, but here we are.
Embalming Play is Lauren’s playwriting debut, an autobiographical fever dream of vignettes and theatrical musings drawn from her experience working as an actor and embalmer in LA.
Three girlish Grim Reapers lead Lauren through an abstracted version of the embalming process, exploring morbid fascination, aging & vanity, ambition & burnout, intimacy with both the living and the dead, and the surprising overlap between Hollywood, embalming, serial killers, and American culture.
Tickets
General Admission - STL Fringe
$16.00
+$0.80 Sales Tax
+$0.42 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00