Playwright and Screenwriter Lucy Alibar Signs With CAA

Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar has signed with CAA for representation, Deadline reports. Alibar is best known for her Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning film Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012.

In 2010 she wrote a play called Juicy and Delicious, a play based on her own experiences in dealing with her father's declining health. Alongside her longtime friend, filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, they chose to adapt the play into a film. The film was chosen by The Sundance Institute to be developed with support from other filmmakers at the institute's Screenwriting Lab, and was renamed Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was selected for screening at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in June 2012, receiving numerous awards and nominations, including a Humanitas Prize and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Alibar won the award for Woman of the Year at NYU's Fusion Film Festival.

Additionally, 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.