Lâle Teoman

Lâle is an award winning multidisciplinary writer. Her original TV series, a family drama / comedy titled The Golden Ass, is optioned by Goalpost Pictures. Lâle’s mystery pilot script See Saw was shortlisted in the long format category for an Australian Writers’ Guild Monte Miller Award, 2023, and is now optioned by Magpie Pictures. Lâle recently contributed in a writers’ room on a literary adaptation for FremantleMedia, 2024.

Lâle was the NSW recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator, 2021, placed with Goalpost Pictures for 12 months. Lâle worked across the Goalpost development slate, including working on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow. Lâle worked as Development Coordinator for Goalpost until June 2024, totalling almost three years.

Lâle won the 2019 Australian Writers’ Guild Monte Miller Award for her short screenplay The Black Tulip and was then inducted into the Australian Writers’ Guild Pathways featured writers. The script also won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards, 2019.

Lâle was sponsored by Scripted Ink to write a long format version of The Black Tulip and a placement at StudioCanal Australia, writing coverage for the European Film

Market, 2021, on behalf of the Head of Acquisitions. Lâle’s pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards, 2018, and Best Short Screenplay in Red Carpet Film Awards NYC, 2018.

Lâle’s first short film script The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013, and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2014. The film also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival, 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, 2015, and Tasmania Breath Of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2016. The film features Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman), herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey.

Lâle wrote the dark comedy stage play Still Chaos With Dog after working for three years as a life drawing model in Sydney (the artists that inspired the play now call each
other by their character names!) and has recently completed a first draft novel manuscript.

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