Lauren Greenwood is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright.

She won the 2019 Telefilm Canada New Voices Award with her feature screenplay Subject 27. Under its previous title, the script was also shortlisted for the 2019 National Screen Institute Features First program. Her short film, Red Balloon, won four awards including Best Screenplay (Short Film) at the San Diego International Kids Film Festival.

Lauren is a prolific TV movie writer. Her first thriller, Murder Runs in the Family, premiered on Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) on November 9, 2023. Her second, Locked In My House, premiered on April 18, 2024, also on LMN. Her third made-for-TV thriller is currently in development with ReelOne Entertainment.

Her first play and directorial debut, An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns, ran at the juried Scripted Toronto Festival and the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019. The play won Best of Fringe North (519), and was a finalist for the Cayle Chernin Award.

After receiving a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Lauren adapted the play into a short film called & Other Concerns, starring the original cast and directed by Sabina Lambert, which has its world premiere at the Big Apple Film Festival in May 2024.

Lauren writes for BlueAnt Media’s YouTube channels Animalogic and The Tech Effect. With more than 2 million subscribers, the Animalogic videos Lauren has written have amassed more than 25 million views.

A graduate of the Second City Conservatory program, Lauren co-created, co-wrote and performed in the sketch comedy revue CARPE INTO MY DMs, which won Best of Fringe at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2019. She also produced and hosted Send Noobs, a bimonthly standup comedy show for new comedians with a focus on women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC performers from 2017 – 2020.

Lauren holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and German from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the prestigious Master of Fine Arts Screenwriting Program at York University.

Lauren is represented by Meaghan Denomme at Gary Goddard Agency.

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