Lauren Wissot holds a B.F.A. in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute before running away to join the circus that was downtown New York City in the early nineties. After years performing with the legendary Living Theatre and lip-synching with the drag queens and gender benders as "Lauren Vile," she gave up the spotlight to become a writer and filmmaker. A published film journalist and critic, Lauren is also an award-winning director and grant recipient whose music video for Sunshine Blind's "Coming Down" and two shorts, "Charlie" and "Notes On Snakes and Reptiles," have screened in festivals across North America. Currently, she is bent on bringing an S&M flavor to the big screen with her scripts "Obeying Lola," a dyke dominatrix coming-of-age comedy, and "The Slave, The Shrink and The Stripper." She also has written a still-unpublished novel and novella about the New York nightclub scene, "Reflections from the Mirror Ball" and "Eternal Happiness and the Nightclub Conspiracy." Her various essays, poems, short stories and such are too numerous to track. "Under My Master's Wings," a modern day "Story of O," is the first of her full-length works to appear in print, and it will hit the stores in August of 2006 and is available from Amazon.com here.
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