Dayna Lynne North
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Dayna Lynne North is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She began her writing career with a freelance episode for the critically acclaimed Lifetime drama Any Day Now (1998), and joined the writing staff during the third season. Dayna then joined Soul Food (2000) for its fifth and final season. She was a writer for the first two seasons of the pop culture phenom Veronica Mars (2004), starring Kristen Bell. Dayna was a Co-Executive Producer on the ABC-Family drama Lincoln Heights (2006), which garnered the NAACP Image award for Best Drama, as well as the Gabriel Award for Best Entertainment. After writing the biographical television musical An En Vogue Christmas (2014), and brief stints on hit shows Switched at Birth (2011) and Single Ladies (2011) (as a head writer/showrunner), Dayna is now an Executive producer on the HBO hit series Insecure (2016), created by and starring Issa Rae.
