Lauren Sequeira

(She/Her)

Lauren’s breakthrough project is the supernatural drama series Domino Day.

While genre shows have been an ever-ready presence on our screens for decades, it seems an age since something as wholly unique as Lauren Sequiera’s supernatural thriller Domino Day (2024, BBC Three), with its depiction of a Manchester-based coven of witches chasing down a rogue enchantress who is sucking the lifeforce out of men she meets on dating apps. This action-packed series wears its genre influences on its sleeve, but its complex characters, rules and world were created from the ground up out of the imagination of its creator, writer and executive producer.

Having earned an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Communication, Lauren spent five years sending out spec scripts before one landed on the desk of Skins creator Bryan Elsley, who quickly recognised her talent, interviewed and hired her to join his writing room. She went on to contribute scripts for the likes of Dumping Ground digital spin-off Sasha’s Contact Meeting (2018) and Gangs of London (2020), before fully earning the opportunity to breathe life into Domino Day.

In their own words…

“Industry meetings [through BAFTA Breakthrough] will be really beneficial. I haven’t hit the American market at all, so it would be good to get advice from them about how to navigate that, especially with the industry being so cautious right now… Domino Day is the first original show I created and executive produced. I was across everything – the casting, the costume, the hair, everything – so I feel it’s announced me as a writer and a creative in the biggest sense.”