Marilyn Fu

Marilyn Fu is an American writer of Taiwanese descent with a strong focus on adaptations and true stories that explore unifying American themes with a multicultural lens for a wide audience. She wrote the feature film ROSEMEAD, which is currently in post production starring Lucy Liu, based on the award-winning LA Times article, “A dying mother's plan: Buy a gun. Rent a hotel room. Kill her son.” She was head writer on the Will Packer/Roma Downey-produced drama series THE BAXTERS on Amazon Prime, based on the bestselling novels by Karen Kingsbury. Also in features, she wrote THE HONOR LIST, released by Lionsgate and executive produced by Zoe Saldana, and THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser, for which she won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Marilyn's journalism background includes being a researcher for T: The New York Times Style Magazine and a writer/reporter for LIFE Books; she has been involved in over forty publications for Time, Inc. She wrote and co-produced a sold-out run of her play BREATHER which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2017, the Tracking Board named her one of the Top 100 New Writers in Hollywood on the Young and Hungry List. Marilyn was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she was the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and now teaches television writing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Graham Sibley and their sons, Lyon and K.P.