Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career.

Laura Osnes had become a beloved Broadway star until the New York Post reported that she was unvaccinated. (Laura Partain for The Free Press)
‘The most hurtful thing,’ said the former Broadway star, ‘was that people found out this one thing about me—and nothing else in my character or my work mattered anymore. And no one defended me.’
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Fourteen years before Broadway banished Laura Osnes because she didn’t get the Covid-19 vaccine, a lot of people in the theater world resented her for the way she’d arrived there. She had dropped out of college and was performing at a dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when her aunt told her about a television audition in Los Angeles. It was calle…
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