Bonnie Lynn MacBird is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer known for co-writing the science fiction film Tron.MacBird has several minor film credits as an actress. She has spent most of her career in Hollywood as a screenwriter and producer. 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 currently acts and writes in theatre and film, and teaches screenwriting at UCLA extension.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.In 1983 she married computer-scientist Alan Kay.
Los Angeles, CA, USA. Writing, teaching, acting. [March 2013]
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teaching screenwriting at UCLA Extension [2009]
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Acting and writing for various theatre companies, contributing editor to Footlights Magazine, Board of Stanford Alumni in Entertainment, songwriting with musical partner Tom Rizzo [2009]
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screenwriter, currently writing a TV pilot [2009]
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Married to computer pioneer Alan Kay whom she met while researching her first script, Tron.
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Her script for Tron is loosely based on the work of her spouse Alan Kay (Dynabook, Smalltalk, Vivarium)
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Research.
2013
TV Series
Blind Lady
Sudden Death!
2010
Short
Well Dressed Woman
Rogue
2001
Short
Amade
Thaw
2000
Short
Mom
10 Seconds
1998
Short
Mother
Jesus 2000
1998
Short
Cynthia Morinstore
Generation Why?
1997
Drunk Woman
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
TRON: Uprising
2012
TV Series based on characters created by - 1 episode
$16 Million
