Lauryn Darden

Lauryn Darden is a screenwriter-director committed to telling stories that help expand people’s understanding of diverse Black narratives and experiences. Much of her work centers the perspectives of older Black people - a perspective that is woefully underrepresented in film. Darden graduated in 2022 from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in dramatic writing. Her feature screenplay The Later Years, a coming-of-age film that follows an elderly Black woman after she leaves her husband of 40 years, has won the National Black Film Festival for Best Original Script, Best…