The actress, writer and singer Lorene Scafaria She was born on May 1, 1978 in the town of Holmdel, (New Jersey), in the United States, where as a child she became interested in writing when she wrote monthly reports on fake books to win Pizza Hut gift certificates for his school. At 17 he wrote and produced his first play in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Lorene he attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania for a year before moving on to Montclair University in New Jersey.
After moving to New York, he wrote and staged at the Producer’s Club Theater the play “That Guy and Others Like Him“, in which he also acted. He also had a small role in the acclaimed short film”Bullet in the Brain“, winner of nine festivals and produced by CJ Follini.
At the time, his literary agent had not yet found him a job, for this reason Lorene she agreed to continue her acting career, appearing in many theatrical productions and in movies “Big Helium Dog” Y “A Million Miles“, among other.
Scafaria she moved from New York to Los Angeles, in response to the request of an agent who called her to work in that city. There he shared an apartment with screenwriter Bryan Sipe, whom he had met shooting a movie in New Jersey. They both began to write an adventure film script for children, called “Legend has it“, which was acquired by Revolution Studios, who asked them to rewrite the script; the result, according to Scafaria it was “much less interesting”, and the project was eventually shelved.
In early 2005, Lorene was hired by Focus Features to adapt Rachel Cohn and Nick David Levithan’s book “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist“in a film that would bear the same name and that was released in 2008. This would be his ninth script, but his first film adaptation.
In 2009, Mandate Pictures acquired the script written by Scafaria “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World“A romantic comedy that focuses on the search for a man of her high school love, facing the threat of the end of the human race. Starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley,”Seeking a Friend for the End of the World“marked the debut of Lorene as director; the film was released in mid-2012
Between 2007 and 2008, he recorded a piano and songs album called “Garden party“In 2009, in the film directed by Drew Barrymore,”Whip it! “original song included”28“, written by Lorene, in the end credits.
Scafaria recorded a second album called “Laughter and Forgetting“, available on iTunes.
Among his next projects, Lorene is writing the scripts for the feature films “Sweet relief“, a documentary drama set in the Iraq war;”Man and Wife“, a drama directed by Gabriele Muccino; and the remake of the musical”Bye bye birdie“, for Red Wagon and Offspring Entertainment.
In her personal life she has been associated with actors Adam Brody and Ashton Kutcher, after the latter ended his relationship with actress Demi Moore.