Lorene Scafaria

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Lorene Scafaria (born May 1, 1978) is an American screenwriter, playwright, actor, singer, and film director.

She is best known for her appearances on Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), Seeking a Friend at the End of the World (2012), and Hustlers (2019).

Early life

Scafaria was born in 1978 in Holmdel, New Jersey, the granddaughter of Gail and Joseph R. Scafaria (1939–2009). Her mother is half-Canadian, and her father is an Italian immigrant from Gioia Tauro. Vincent is her brother. She first became interested in writing when she began a report on a scam book a month before being granted pizza Hut gift certificates from her school. She had written and staged her first play in Red Bank, New Jersey, by the age of 17. She graduated from Holmdel High School in 1995 and attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania; after being unable to afford Lafayette's tuition, she transferred to Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from Montclair with a minor in theater from Montclair.

Personal life

Scafaria is in a relationship with musical comedian Bo Burnham, with whom she lives in Los Angeles. They began dating in 2013. In the end credits, Burnham's special Inside was dedicated to her, and it includes the phrase "for lor, for everything."

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Career

Scafaria wrote and staged a play called That Guy and Others Like Him after moving to New York City, where she appeared in a production called That Guy and Others Like Him. She appeared in the critically acclaimed short film Bullet in the Brain, which received awards at nine festivals and was directed by CJ Follini. Her writing agent had yet to find her a job, so she took on more acting roles in addition to films like Big Helium Dog and A Million Miles. She sent out calls to twenty different agents to ask representation, one of whom answered and asked her to move from New York to Los Angeles. Despite the fact that she did not anticipate great success with the agent, she travelled to Los Angeles and met screenwriter Bryan Sipe, whom she had previously encountered while making a film in her native New Jersey. Both of their creations were considered "commercial" enough by studios, so they team up to produce Legend Has It, a children's adventure film. Revolution Studios bought the screenplay but asked for a re-write, which Scafaria described as "far less interesting," and the project was ultimately shelved.

Focus Features was hired by Focus Features in early 2005 to convert Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's book Infinite Playlist's book Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist's book "Nevergivene Playlist" into a film of the same name. The screenplay was her ninth, but it was her first adaptation. "I grew up in suburban New Jersey, so I immediately identified with the characters, especially Norah," Scafaria told the moviemaker. Everything from being uncomfortable in my own skin to having a father who is bigger than life (even if just in your mind), her plight spoke to me and seemed to a large number of young girls. It wasn't difficult to get inside the characters' heads because the authors' voices are so strong. Scafaria goes on to say that the film Before Sunrise was a big influence on the design of the film. "It's just a real challenge to bring it right back to those movies that I grew up with in the 1980s, John Hughes movies, and Cameron Crowe," Scafaria said of its retro teen comedy.

Scafaria is a good friend of fellow writers Diablo Cody and Liz Meriwether, with whom she works in a writing group they refer to as the "Fempire." The Athena Film Festival Award for Creativity and Sisterhood was given to Scafaria and the "Fempire" in 2012. Sweet Relief for Paramount Pictures and The Mighty Flynn, a spec script that she created at Warner Brothers, was written by her. Man and Wife, which Gabriele Muccino is also attached to, has been published.

The 2009 film Whip It!

Mandate Pictures picked up Scafaria's script Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a romantic comedy that centered on one man's search for a meaningful relationship amid the "end of days." Scafaria's debut film was released in June 2012, and it was released in June 2012. Scafaria's Jan Huttner spoke about the apocalypse story, "all the chaos around them that they're probably wheeling through—and obviously some people are just mowing their lawn and some are doing heroin." Since she says, "I love people" it becomes a part of her style, alterations, and personal feelings. I love intimate stories about people; whether it's a guy and a girl, or whatever it is, I love personal stories of people and how they relate to each other.

Scafaria produced the comedy-drama The Meddler, which was based on her own script in 2015. The film tells the tale of a woman and her daughter's struggle to cope with life after the loss of their husband and father. "It's all from Marnie's perspective because I never wanted to get a break from her," Scafaria told the New York Times. More than anything, I wanted it to incite compassion from people who might be in this situation, whether it's via loss or some other situation that causes strife. "I began to teach people that being the adult child of someone and trying to be the best friends" was so relatable.

Scafaria wrote and directed Hustlers, based on Jessica Pressler's 2015 New York magazine article. The film is about a woman who was born to Cambodian immigrant refugees and was abandoned and obstructed to remain with her grandparents, who tried her best to get by. The film was a critical and commercial success. "There are a few films that I feel have touched on these subjects, such as The Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short," Scafaria said to Vox, which are both ways that show [financial downturns] from the bullpen. However, I'm really interested in seeing the effect that the 2008 recession had on these women who lived in Wall Street's backyard." "It felt like there was something more in between the lines," Destiny and Ramona's writer and director said, "The tale of these two women who became colleagues and started this company together, and now they are being interviewed separately years later." Brie Schwartz of Roselyn Keo's Oprah Daily 2019 interview told her part of the tale and how accurate it was. With a The Wolf of Wall Street theme focusing on excess and lust, it made sense for the women to enter sleazy men's pockets to reach their peak, according to her. "The girls were looking for money, and the guys were looking for love." "Both supply and demand are in conflict." Scafaria wrote a glamorous and cohesive story that remained true to the characters' attitude, showing excellent command of emotional depth and authenticity as a writer and director.

Scafaria produced "Too Much Birthday" in 2021, which earned her a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

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