Lauren O’Connor

Librarian, The Writers Guild Foundation | Research Methods for Writers with Susannah Grant

Lauren O'Connor is a Librarian in the Writers Guild Foundation Library, where she helps to build and provide access to a collection of over 40,000 produced film and television scripts. She can often be found behind the reference desk, processing archival collections, contributing to the WGF blog and M.C-ing War of the Wordstrivia night battles.

Before coming to the WGF, Lauren worked as a video preservationist at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco. Originally from Alabama, she holds a B.F.A in Screenwriting from University of North Carolina, School of the Arts and an M.A in Moving Image Archive Studies from UCLA. In her spare time, she writes plays and poems. A professional shhh-er by day, Lauren is obsessed with musical theatre and country music and can talk about both subjects ad nauseam.