Lucy Alibar

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Lucy Alibar is a writer from the Florida panhandle. Her plays include “Juicy and Delicious” (Collective Unconscious/The TANK), “A Friend of Dorothy” (Avignon, Montreal Fringe), “Lightning/Picnic”, “Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides”, and “Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower”. She wrote her first screenplay, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (an adaptation of her stage play, “Juicy and Delicious” in a Louisiana fishing marina with director Benh Zeiltin. “Beasts of the Southern Wild” has gone on to receive the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and the Cannes Film Festival Camera D’Or, and the Nantucket Film Festival New Voices in Screenwriting Award. She is a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a two time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and winner of Young Playwrights, Inc.

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