Caroline Ryder (USC MFA, WGA) is a storyteller based in Los Angeles and London.
Her career encompasses journalism, memoir ghostwriting, screenwriting, content strategy, and storytelling for museum exhibits. She is interested in the bright lights of popular culture as much as the vitality of underground scenes.
She studied environment and economics at the London School of Economics before gaining her MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
In 2017, she became a member of the Writers Guild of America.
She has interviewed countless artists, actors, and filmmakers on behalf of publications like Dazed, The Face, T Magazine, New York Magazine, Flaunt, LA Times, URB, Paper, Monocle, Billboard, and Variety, where she was Style Editor.
She has conducted extensive research into the history of rave and graffiti culture on behalf of festival behemoth Insomniac Events, and the “Art in the Streets”/”Beyond the Streets” brands.
As a ghostwriter, she has penned several memoirs on behalf of celebrity clients, including Lala Kent, (“Vanderpump Rules” / GIVE THEM LALA / Simon & Schuster, 2021), Bobbie Brown, model and comedienne (DIRTY ROCKER BOYS, Gallery Books, 2013, named among the “50 greatest rock memoirs of all time” by Rolling Stone magazine), Ashley Fiolek, Deaf X Games motocross champion (KICKING UP DIRT, Harper Collins, 2011.)
She worked on a coffee table book with GWAR, shock rock band (LET THERE BE GWAR / Gingko, 2015)
She has been hired to write, rewrite, and polish screenplays in Hollywood, while developing her own spec scripts. Her horror script MIMI was selected for the inaugural Hedgebrook Screenwriting Lab, and other specs have won or placed highly in competitions including the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Austin Film Festival, the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, the Screencraft Drama Competition, the Screencraft Horror Competition and Vail Film Festival.