Munro McLaren

Munro McLaren was born in Healdsburg, California. She moved to Vermont when she was one and has lived there since. McLaren started writing screenplays during her junior year of high school. McLaren attended Vergennes Union High School in Vergennes, Vermont. It was during that time that she decided to major in Film in college. McLaren attends Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey and is pursuing her BFA in Film and Television with a concentration in Directing. She's triple minoring in Screenwriting, Creative Writing and British Studies as well. In the spring of 2021, McLaren was the producer for the virtual musical "The Theory of Relativity" that Fairleigh Dickinson University's Theater Department put on. She was also the producer and writer for a short film called "The Park Bench" that was filmed for her Filmmaking 3 class. She was the director of the short film "The Odds" that was filmed for the same class. McLaren directed and produced her senior thesis film that is a short documentary titled "Locked Inside: How Covid-19 Impacted Mental Health." It premiered on May 3rd, 2022 at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey. McLaren's mother works in health care and her father is a retired Full Bird Colonel in the Vermont National Guard. She has one brother who is four years younger than her. She is cousins with actor Jamie Martz, cinematographer Glen MacPherson, production designer and art director Laurin Kelsey, and filmmaker James Clement. They are all from her mother's side of the family.