Bonnie MacBird
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- Writer
- actor
- theatre director
- voice artist
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| Born | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Website | macbird |
Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, actress and producer of screen, stage and prose. She co-wrote the science fiction film Tron.
MacBird is a native of San Francisco, California and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in film.[1] She is married to computer scientist Alan Kay.
MacBird has spent most of her career in Hollywood as a screenwriter and producer. She wrote the original drafts of Tron[2][3] and received a "story by" credit. She worked in feature film development for Universal Studios in the 1970s, won two Emmy Awards as a producer in the 1980s, and was, for ten years, the head of a firm called Creative License/SkyBird Productions. She has a number of acting and writing credits in Los Angeles theatre.
She continues to write, direct and act in theatre in Los Angeles and is a voice actor for SkyBoat Media.[4]
Novels
MacBird's recent career has focused on her Sherlock Holmes Adventure series for HarperCollins. Her first Sherlock Holmes novel, Art in The Blood, (2015) was followed by Unquiet Spirits (2017).[5][6] A third, The Devil's Due, was released in 2019, followed by The Three Locks in 2021. Her fifth novel, What Child is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure, appeared in 2022 and was illustrated by Frank Cho.[7][dead link]
