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MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCER
LAURIE DUNLAP


GREETINGS, MURDER MYSTERY FANS!

Welcome to
Murder Mysteries Will Travel®, a professional acting company dedicated to bringing laughter and interactive fun to our clients and customers by spoofing the murder mystery genre.
We’ve all heard the saying…”Life’s too mysterious, don’t take it serious!”

Everybody loves a mystery and YOU can join the ranks of such notables as Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, Jessica Fletcher, Kojak, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Magnum PI, and Inspector Clouseau, to name a few, as you examine the clues, question suspects and help solve the crime!
Laurie Dunlap
Producer

Our actors are all wonderful, accomplished performers bringing to life a rogue gallery of characters. No other murder mystery company can compare to the acting experience and comedic skills of our actors. The script plots are creative, clever and always tasteful.

Our clients always express how much FUN they had and are very generous in their praise…but please, don’t take my word for it – read our client references (eyewitness accounts) inside! That’s what our shows are all about – having fun with a unique and memorable event that your group will be talking about for years to come. (Our clients include companies associated with high tech, communications, publishing, advertising, finance, insurance, recruiting, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, energy, military, travel services, associations, government agencies, media, law enforcement, real estate, automobile industry, education, student and community groups, retirement communities, hotels, restaurants, country clubs, cruise ships, trains, etc.).
RAPID RESPONSE & TAILORING - Due to years of experience and a large company of highly qualified actors, Murder Mysteries Will Travel® can provide a very rapid response to requests for shows with a variety of plots. We can also adapt our shows to include information about your company, special events, or employees.

MUSIC and DECORATIONS - We provide reception and dinner music tailored to the show utilizing our state-of-the-art large BOSE Music Wave Systems. THEME PARTIES can also provide holiday, seasonal or special theme decorations to add extra color and excitement.

Are you ready to join the ranks of the famous detectives? As Sherlock Holmes would say, “The GAME’S AFOOT and there’s not a moment to lose!”


Murder Mysteries Will Travel® is a federally registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  All rights reserved.
 

Member of...

  • Casting Associate of The Actors' Center of Metropolitan Washington
  • The Corporate Event Channel


PRODUCER's BIO

Laurie Dunlap, a native Washingtonian, is the Producer and Director of Murder Mysteries Will Travel® and President of THEME PARTIES, LLC.

Laurie is an accomplished theatrical producer, director, playwright, actress, and singer. 

Laurie also has 30 years experience in theatrical production and special event production and management. As the former Executive Director of The Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington and The Public Relations Society of America, National Capital Chapter, Laurie is very experienced in large and small event planning. These events included large golf & tennis tournaments at area country clubs, ADDY and THOTH Award celebrations, and countless industry luncheons and seminars. She also produced a major fundraising theatre event for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund at the Hartke Theatre in Washington, D.C., chaired road rallies for United Cerebral Palsy of Montgomery County, and produced the twentieth anniversary gala for a local resident theatre company.

As an actress, Laurie has enjoyed performing in murder mysteries for many years as a variety of characters, so much so, that she decided to form the Murder Mysteries Will Travel® company. She has also performed lead roles in musicals and plays throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and at the famed summer stock theatre Wagon Wheel Playhouse in Indiana. Her roles have included Dolly in Hello Dolly, Mame in MAME, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street, Julie in Showboat, Carlotta in Follies, Lady Manley-Prowe in Something's Afoot, Marge in Promises Promises, Fiona in Brigadoon, the Baroness in The Sound of Music, Truvy in Steel Magnolias, Rafaella in Grand Hotel, Queen Elizabeth in I Will I Will and Mae West in A USO Christmas. She also produced and starred in three one-woman cabaret shows in New York City and D.C.: "Broadway Memories," "Ladies of the Theatre," and "Affairs of the Heart."

Laurie has performed in Europe for the Defense Department USO and in Mexico and South America for the State Department’s cultural exchange programs. She spent several years as a soloist at St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church in DC, and sang in Salzburg, Austria for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Mozart’s death.

Laurie is a Speech and Drama graduate of the renowned Drama Department of Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., mentored and taught by the founder of the Drama Department, Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, and many of it’s distinguished faculty including Bill Graham, Sr., Mark Hammer, Jim Waring and academy award-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge.