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Screenwriter
Born in San Francisco, Bonnie MacBird graduated from
Stanford University with a BA in Music and an MA in Communication
(film production). Bonnie next worked for four years as the feature
film story exec at Universal under Ned Tanen, where she developed
scripts and served as story editor on many feature films, as well as
covered theater for the studio.
Her first script, "TRON", sold to Disney, and was made into the 1980
feature film. Her original musical "HOT ROLES", which she also
directed, had a successful run in a Los Angeles theater, and many
other scripts were sold or optioned at this time. She has continued
her writing with a recently completed mystery novel, and is now
adapting a Sherlock Holmes story for the Knightsbridge. A respected
writer and story editor, she has served on the arbitration committee
for the WGA and has helped arbitrate numerous writing credits.
In the eighties she teamed with television director Jim Shasky, and
the pair went on to form Creative License/SkyBird Pictures, a
production company creating entertainment shorts for broadcast as
well as marketing videos for Fortune 500 clients. Partnered with
Shasky, MacBird won two Los Angeles Area Emmy awards (Best Feature
Segments in 1986 and 1987) for their CBS work. As the
writer/director team on all their projects, Bonnie and her partner
won over sixty national awards, including thirteen Cine Golden
Eagles, and Best Directing, Writing, and Best Promotional Film
awards from such prestigious groups as the New York Film and
Television Festival, the ITVA, and others. MacBird closed Creative
License in 1997 to concentrate on acting.
She now resides in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts with her
husband, noted futurist and computer scientist Alan Kay, whom she
met while researching the movie TRON. An award-winning watercolor
painter, she also enjoys travel, tennis, and roaming the Internet.
Professional affiliations include SAG, AFTRA, WGA, ITVA, Britain's
Royal Society of the Arts, the Valley Watercolor Society, and
Stanford Alumni in Entertainment.
Reprinted with permission from Bonnie MacBird.
Related Links
- IMDB Entry for
Bonnie MacBird
- Official Bonnie
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