# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lauren-wolkstein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:46.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lauren-wolkstein"
name: "Lauren Wolkstein"
slug: "lauren-wolkstein"
description: "Lauren Wolkstein is an American film director, writer, producer and editor. She is known for directing, writing, and editing the 2017 film The Strange Ones with Christopher Radcliff and serving on the directorial team for the third season of Ava DuVernay's Queen Sugar, which she followed with a producing director role in the fifth season. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lauren_Wolkstein_Montclair_film_festival_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.25
  momentum:             13.40425531914893
  historical:           5.942117333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2171388/"
    handle:    "nm2171388"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.laurenwolkstein.com/"
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    title: "لارین وولکسٹین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاورين ولكستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Wolkstein"
    title: "Lauren Wolkstein"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Wolkstein"
    title: "Lauren Wolkstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Wolkstein"
    title: "Lauren Wolkstein"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Wolkstein"
    title: "Lauren Wolkstein"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump