Lorna is an Irish writer / director who began her career as a photographic assistant and went on to become one of Irelands leading commercial photographers, specialising in lifestyle and fashion imagery. While working as a photographer Lorna developed an interest in screenwriting and directing. She holds a B.A. in Photography, an M.A. in Screenwriting, an M.Sc. in Digital Feature Film Production and has completed several Screen Ireland writing and directing programmes, including a bursary to attend Cine Qua Non Lab for screenwriting in Mexico 2022. 

Lorna is a visiting / associate lecturer in photography, drama and screenwriting at a number of Irish Institutions and Universities, including IADT and Bow Street Acting Academy. Passionate about giving back and sharing her knowledge with the community, Lorna teaches photographic and drama workshops to adults who use homeless services and in disadvantaged areas of Dublin. Lorna devised and directed a short community film as part of The Abbey Theatre’s Dear Ireland project. With Fatima Groups United community project, and sponsored by TikTok and the St Patricks Day festival, Lorna made award winning dance and poetry film, Dance Till Dán, which has screened widely from Berlin’s ZEBRA poetry Film Festival to China’s ROLLOUT dance film festival. 

Her first indie feature as writer / director, Meeting on the Stairs, toured with the Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival, across USA, South America and North Africa. The award-winning student feature film Poison Pen, with Lorna as lead director, screened world wide at festivals, on UTV television and Amazon Prime. As a director in the renowned Actors Studio at The Factory, Dublin, Lorna worked closely with many of the emerging Irish acting stars seen on international screens. She has completed Screen Ireland shadow director programmes on Irish TV series Red Rock and UK/USA series Sherlock and Daughter. 

Most recently she has directed the short film Whale, a gripping drama about the complexity of domestic violence, produced by Wildfire Films, funded by FilmOffaly and recently screened at the ’16 Days 16 Films’ festival, in connection with the UN campaign 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Lorna received Screen Ireland funding and is currently writing the feature screenplay of Whale. In 2023 her short screenplay Locked and Loaded won the Dublin Comedy Film Festival script reading competition. So far in 2024 she received Engine Shorts funding to co-write and direct short film #bog with Five Line Films, and directed Árdán / RTÉ funded short Remote Strutting with Western Front Studios. Both of these shorts are about to start their festival run.