Lorien Haynes
Based between London and Los Angeles, Lorien is an actor and playwright. In the last two years she has acted in a twenty‐three short film series and feature of her Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, directed by Saffron Burrows, Tara Fitzgerald, Sienna Guillory and Jodhi May. This has won multiple international awards including Best Feature at the Cannes Independent Festival 2022, and Best Actress at the New York International Film Awards 2022. She has also performed the work as a play at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, with Jason Isaacs, and at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverley Hills, with Ted Danson. Lorien appeared in her play Good Grief, workshopped at NYSAF (New York Stage and Film) with John Slattery, and at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. She has just filmed a lead in Kensal Town, directed by Saffron Burrows, and starred in the podcast America 2.0, alongside Patrick J Adams and Laurence Fishburne. Lorien is cast in her forthcoming indie feature The Lift, which won Best Screenplay at the Paris Independent Film Festival, and is currently shooting the new dating show Virtually Single for Finite Films. She will appear in the Everything play in LA, and is working with Paul Crewes at The Wallis to premiere Good Grief.