Wearing director’s hat

American actress Lena Dunham will direct and be the executive producer Industry for HBO, an eight-part series following a group of twenty-somethings breaking into the world of international finance. The show follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions in a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleagues, friends, lovers and enemies soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined by sex, drugs and ego as well as deals and dividends.

Dunham will direct the pilot episode of the show and will executive produce the entire series alongside Konrad Kay and Mickey Down. Together Kay and Down drew the script for the show from their own life experiences. Reportedly, there are currently no plans for her to appear in the series. It is the first series for emerging writers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay after their BIFA-nominated feature film Gregor.