Lauren Minnerath is a writer and director of films and television. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Gotham Film & Media Institute, SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Creative Culture Fellowship. She has written for and developed projects at Amazon Studios, New Line Cinema, Shivhans Pictures, and Fifth Season. She is also a member of the WGA East's inaugural Showrunner Academy Program.

She is currently developing multiple projects, including her feature directorial debut, CLARE, which was recently selected to be developed at the 2023 Sundance Creative Producing Lab. Her proof of concept short for the film premiered in competition at SXSW in March of 2022. She enjoys analog photography in her free time and lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Ruth.