Jillian Lauren
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Jillian Lauren is a New York Times bestselling author, mother of dragons, rockwife, adoption advocate, and lousy kickboxer. Her new true crime book on Samuel Little is upcoming from Dutton. She is the author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty. Some Girls, which chronicles her time spent in the harem of the Prince of Brunei, has been translated into eighteen languages. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle, Flaunt Magazine, The Daily Beast, Salon, and many other publications. Her work has been widely anthologized, including in The Moth Anthology and True Tales of Lust and Love. She is a regular storyteller with The Moth and performs at spoken word and storytelling events across the country. She did a TEDx talk about adoption and identity at Chapman University in 2014. Jillian is married to Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their two sons.
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Confronting a Serial Killer
Character: Self
The timely story of the unprecedented relationship between acclaimed New York Times best-selling author and memoirist Jillian Lauren and the most prolific serial killer in American history, Samuel Little, and her race against time to identify his victims before it's too late. As she slips deeper into his sordid world, Jillian realizes that she may become, psychologically, Little's last victim....
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Watch Out
Character: Margaret / The Pop Star
This darkly comedic drama follows the erotic exploits of Jonathan Barrows, a narcissistic college professor whose sexual fascination with his own body leads him to down a path of increasingly disturbed behavior. Forsaking priests and others who lust for him, Barrows soon pays a high price for his excessive self-love....
Wamego: Ultimatum
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Third entry in the documentary series about true independent filmmaking from Steve Balderson, based out of Wamego, KS....