Lauren R Fritz

Courses:
Fundamentals of Filmmaking I: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Fundamentals of Filmmaking II: Narrative Film
Grad Acting 2nd Year Filmmaking Workshop
Production Adviser Graduate Film

Lauren Fritz is a writer, filmmaker, and professor living in Brooklyn. Since 2014 she has taught filmmaking and writing to undergraduate and graduate students in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Prior to this she worked in production in the film industry on many films, television shows and commercials as well as written and edited news, reviews and feature articles for a variety of magazines and online publications.

Her films have screened at festivals including the Taos International Shortz Film Festival, Miami International Sci-Fi Film Festival and the Anthology Film Archives. Her TV pilot "Birds of Paradise" was selected to present at the 2017 IFP Project Forum Week  She is the co-creator/writer on Below the Radar, a TV series based on the true life stories of former FBI undercover agent Dana Ridenour and based on her Behind the Mask thriller novels.

Lauren has just completed her first novel, Utopia Parkway, a novel told in eight parts that plays around with the intersection between forms and styles, from naturalism to surrealism to horror as it follows three college friends throughout the decade of the 1990s to the present day as we witness them growing up, drifting apart and trying to come back together.

She received her BFA from the Department of Film & TV at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MA in Urban Studies from NYU’s Gallatin School.