Lauren Pasternack (born 15 May 1983; age 30) is an up-and-coming filmmaker who worked on 2009's Star Trek as part of the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan. She was part of the Training Plan's class of 2006, as was her fellow Star Trek DGA trainee Nicole Treston Abranian. [1]

Pasternack is an alumni of the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). While there, she directed a short film entited Found Umbrellas, which was screened at the UCSC Chautauqua Festival in 2004. [2] She was also a member of the UCSC sketch comedy group Prank the Dean.[3]

In addition, she was the casting director for the 2005 short films Black and White and Praxis for Food for the Moon productions. She also appeared in Black and White.[4][5] More recently, she was a member of the production staff on the television drama series Brothers & Sisters, starring John Pyper-Ferguson.

External link Edit

• Lauren Pasternack at the Internet Movie Database
• Lauren Pasternack at MySpace.com