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 just completed her first novel, Utopia Parkway, a time traveling, globetrotting, genre jumping coming of age novel that moves through the decade of the 1990s via the lives and loves of best friends Kit, Cassie and Ava. After meeting freshman year in the gritty, drug fueled and queer East Village of New York City, together these young women discover art, love, desire, sex and heartbreak. When an accident breaks them apart, they must separately navigate the rest of an increasingly complicated, dangerous and surreal end of millennium America.

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.