Lauryn Massenburg is the 2024 recipient of the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay at Beyond: The Cary Film Festival

Lauryn Massenburg is a writer, director, producer, and recent MFA screenwriting graduate of UNC School of the Arts. Her screenplay, Puddin’, is the 2024 recipient of the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay at Beyond: The Cary Film Festival. Lauryn wrote her English Honors thesis, “White Anxiety Versus Minority Reality: The Films of Wes Anderson,” spring of 2022. She has been remarkably successful after getting her B.A. in English here at Charlotte, and her MFA at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.