Biography
Lauren Schuker Blum is a screenwriter and former journalist. She worked as a national real estate reporter at The Wall Street Journal from 2007, covering real estate, media and entertainment, and contributed to The Economist, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a master's degree in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute as a Marshall Scholar.
With writing partner Rebecca Angelo, whom she met at the Journal, she wrote for the Emmy-winning series Orange Is the New Black (2017) and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Dumb Money (2023), adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Antisocial Network. She also serves as an executive producer on the film. Blum and Angelo have several projects in development, including adaptations of Murder, She Wrote and The Premonition.
She has been married to producer Jason Blum since 2012.
