Everything I ever wanted to Tell My Daughter about men

Lorien Haynes

Lorien moved to the US from London to write for film and television in 2009; 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 was released 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 again at The Donmar Warehouse in London in 2019 with Saffron Burrows and director Fiona Buffini.

Lorien’s second play, Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, premiered at The Wallis Annenberg in LA in March 2019 and at The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe in March 2020.

Lorien is writing a podcast - The Lift [about immigration and reproductive rights in 2030]. A devised project with The Globe called Shakespeare’s Women, a series about climate change - a comedy - and she has co-written a film adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew.

Her third half hour comedy- The Actress - is being pitched to Netflix with Janet McTeer starring and Sharon Maguire directing. Her fourth half-hour, Women Who Eat, a co-write with Damian Harris is at Hatrick and she continues to write as a UK journalist [cover interviews for Psychologies and Red magazine]. Since 2000 she has written extensively for Elle, Harpers Bazaar, The Observer, Little White Lies and Grazia. Her broadcast work includes BBC Worldwide, BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour and Front Row. 

Lorien is a passionate advocate for survivors and had worked with Amnesty International since 2002.