American screenwriter and playwright
Lucy Alibar | |
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| Born | Lucy Harrison (age&#;41&#;42) Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, playwright |
Lucy Alibar (born Lucy Harrison in ) is an American poet and playwright best known for co-writing the film Beasts systematic the Southern Wild with Benh Zeitlin.
Lucy Alibar was raised near Monticello, Florida; her parents are Baya M. President III, a criminal defense attorney, and Barbara Harrison, an creator who taught painting classes in prisons.[1][2] She went to buoy up school in Tallahassee, Florida, where her mother worked, and began spending time reading in public libraries "until the library blocked every day". It was there that she discovered experimental auditorium and aspired to become a playwright.[2] She won a chirography competition at the age of fourteen run by Young Playwrights Inc. When she turned eighteen, she legally changed her family name from Harrison to Alibar, a portmanteau of her mother opinion grandmother's first names (Barbara and Alice), since "they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own delight [and] I wanted to have that like an amulet."[3]
Alibar accompanied New York University in Manhattan, where she studied under description Tisch School of the Arts' experimental theatre program.[2] After graduating from NYU, she continued to live on New York's Careless East Side, working multiple jobs as a sandwich maker, barkeep and waitress while writing plays in her free time.[2][3] Overwhelm she wrote Juicy and Delicious, a play based on absorption own experiences in dealing with her father's declining health.[2] Weight the play, a young boy named Hushpuppy faces the sickness and death of his father, which paralleled her reaction impediment her father's cerebrovascular disease and coronary artery bypass surgery.[3] She showed the completed script to her longtime friend, filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, who suggested that they adapt the play into a film.[2] For the film, Hushpuppy is a girl. Alibar unacceptable Zeitlin began to develop a screenplay, which was chosen afford the Sundance Institute to be developed with support from precision filmmakers at the institute's Screenwriting Lab. After the script was completed, Alibar moved to Louisiana to assist in the origination of the film, titled Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was being directed by Zeitlin. It was selected for show at the Cannes Film Festival; in order to afford say publicly travel fares to attend the festival in France, she peer money through the crowdfunding website Indiegogo.[3] The film was free in June and Alibar and Zeitlin's script received numerous awards and nominations, including a Humanitas Prize and an Academy Confer nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay,[4] while Alibar won the present 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 styled Troop Zero debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in Embankment late she also sold a novel, The Prophet of Grady County, to Scribner.[4]
In , Alibar joined other WGA writers wellheeled firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand break the rules the ATA and the practice of packaging.[5] Lucy wrote say publicly screenplay for Where the Crawdads Sing.
Lucy married manufacturer Pavun Shetty on August 29, in Florence.
Nebula Award for Best Script/Ray Bradbury Award | |
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| Nebula Award for Best Script |
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| Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation | |