Bio

MA in Film Studies and Screenwriting - First Class BA Honours in Drama and Film University of East Anglia UK - WGA member since January 2013

Lorien moved to the US from London to write for film and television; beginning with a series of shorts for Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia’s Wigs. She has subsequently written three half hour comedy pilots, a feature with Oscar nominated producer Matthew Cooke and an adaptation of Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister for the stage.

In 2013, Oscar nominated director Amy Berg asked Lorien to write and produce her documentary feature about child abuse in Hollywood: An Open Secret screened at Cannes and was released in the US in 2015.

Lorien’s screenplay adaptation of her first play, Good Grief, was shortlisted for the NYWIFT Writers Lab and for the WGAW Feature Access Project [2015]. It reached the semi-final and final 12 women writers of The Academy Nicholl Fellowship [2016] and graduated to the second round of The Sundance January Screenwriting Lab, [2017]. 

Good Grief the play, was work-shopped for New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theatre season 2016 with John Slattery directing and Mamie Gummer, Ben Lawson and Charlotte Parry cast. It was workshopped at The Cherry Lane Theatre in Jan 2018 under the new title Butterside Down. Butterside Down has subsequently been selected by 59E59 for its NY premier in August 2019.

Lorien has just completed her third original play The Lift [a sci-fi about immigration and reproductive rights in 2030] and is work-shopping her second play, A Man and a Woman, about the impact of sexual assault on a woman's relationship history. She has co-written a film adaptation of The Taming of The Shrew and has two projects in development with UK producers This Red Rock Ltd: The Actress - a half hour being pitched to Netflix with Janet McTeer starring and Sharon Maguire directing. And War Reporter - a one hour about a complex female war correspondent. She is currently developing a fourth half-hour, Are You Being Served? with Damian Harris.