Lena Dunham Creative Writing Degree, Dunham attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York, where she met Tiny Furniture actress and Girls co-star Jemima Kirke. She graduated in 2008 from Oberlin College, where she studied creative writing. While in college, she worked at Geminola, an upmarket fashion boutique in New York’s West Village.
Dunham’s 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, and subsequently screened at such festivals as Maryland Film Festival. Dunham herself plays the lead role of Aura and Dunham’s own mother, the artist Laurie Simmons, plays Aura’s mother, while her real sister, Grace, plays Aura’s on-screen sibling.
Dunham’s television series Girls was greenlit by HBO in early 2012. The show is executive produced by Judd Apatow. Three episodes were screened to positive response at the 2012 South by Southwest Festival. The first season premiered April 15, 2012, and has garnered Dunham four Emmy nominations for her roles in acting, writing, and directing the series and two Golden Globe wins for Best Comedy Series for Girls and for herself in Best Lead Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series. In February 2013, Dunham became the first woman ever to win a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Director in a Comedy Series for her work on Girls.
Dunham had a cameo in the movie Supporting Characters, along with her Tiny Furniture co-star Alex Karpovsky.
On October 8, 2012, Dunham signed a $3.5 million deal with Random House to publish her first book, an essay collection called Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned. On December 7, 2012, New York-based gossip blog Gawker posted a 66-page proposal for Dunham’s book on their website, criticizing various quotations from the proposal. Dunham’s attorney demanded the removal of the proposal and the quotations.
Dunham appeared in a video advertisement promoting President Barack Obama’s reelection, delivering a monologue to camera, which, according to a blog quoted in The Atlantic, tried to “get the youth vote by comparing voting for the first time to having sex for the first time”. Fox News reported “intense criticism” from multiple media sources, who labeled the advertisement as “tasteless and inappropriate”, but added that “not everyone was so offended”.
Dunham made a cameo in the opening skit of the 2012 Emmy Awards, appearing naked for comedic effect.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Lena Dunham Creative Writing Degree
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