Lena Dunham Will Pay Book Tour Opening Acts

By: Sep. 29, 2014
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Pictured: Amy Poehler, Lena Dunham and Lizzy Caplan

Following the news that Lena Dunham would not be paying the opening acts throughout her upcoming book tour, the GIRLS creator and star has reversed her decision.

Taking to Twitter to announce the news, Dunham posted:

"Some good points were raised and I've ensured that all opening acts will be compensated for their time, their labor and their talents."

The flip-flop comes after The New York Times reported that the selected group would be "the warm-up acts -performing free of charge - on an elaborately produced, 11-city tour to promote Ms. Dunham's new book, "'Not That Kind of Girl.'"

A 2008 graduate of Oberlin College, Lena Dunham was born in New York in 1986 and raised in Brooklyn, where she attended Saint Ann's School. Her Golden Globe award-winning, Emmy-nominated series Girls, now entering its third season, follows the lives of four twenty-something women in Brooklyn. While at Oberlin, Dunham began writing shorts and feature films. In 2009 she created the web series Delusional Downtown Divas, which gained a cult following. She was commissioned to make ten additional episodes for the Guggenheim's first annual Art Awards. Also in 2009, Dunham releasedCreative Nonfiction, her first feature film. She went on to write, direct, and star in Tiny Furniture(2010), which premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and received two Spirit Award nominations. Dunham has also created several short films, among them Dealing, which premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. She is also the recipient of a Webby Award for her performance in a campaign spot for President Obama. She recently signed a contract with Random House for a collection of essays,Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned, which will contain Dunham's advice on life, love, and sex.



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