Lucy Alibar

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Lucy Alibar
Born
Lucy Harrison

1983 (age 40–41)
Florida, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, playwright

Lucy Alibar (born Lucy Harrison in 1983) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild with Benh Zeitlin.

Early life

Lucy Alibar was raised near

portmanteau of her mother and grandmother's first names (Barbara and Alice), since "they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness [and] I wanted to have that like an amulet."[3]

Career

Alibar attended

Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay,[4] while Alibar won the award for Woman of the Year at NYU's Fusion Film Festival.[2]

After the release of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Alibar wrote a film adaptation of The Secret Garden to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and adapted one of her plays, Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower, into a screenplay for the production company Escape Artists. The resulting film titled Troop Zero debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. In late 2013 she also sold a novel, The Prophet of Grady County, to Scribner.[4]

In 2019, Alibar joined other WGA writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.[5] Lucy wrote the screenplay for Where the Crawdads Sing.

Personal life

Lucy married producer Pavun Shetty on August 29, 2022 in Florence.

References

  1. ^ Hinson, Mark (January 10, 2013). "Writer Lucy Alibar scores Oscar gold with 'Beasts'". USA Today. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  2. ^
    Indiewire
    . Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Friedman, Steve (October 16, 2012). "Lucy Alibar: From Broke to Phenomenon". Elle. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Setoodeh, Ramin (October 7, 2013). "'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Scribe Lucy Alibar Sells First Novel (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  5. ^ "WGA: More Than 7,000 Writers Have Fired Their Agents". Deadline. 22 April 2019.

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