Bonnie MacBird bio
Bonnie MacBird graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Music and an MA in Communication (film production). She subsequently worked in the film industry for many years, in a variety of capacities. As a young production executive at Universal in the late 70's she was Ned Tanen’s story development executive for feature films. Next she was a screenwriter from for many years, and her first script, TRON was sold to Disney, and made into the 1981 feature film.

“HOT ROLES”, a musical play she co-wrote, produced and directed, had a successful run in a Los Angeles theater, and many additional film and TV scripts sold or were optioned to Paramount, Disney, and various independent producers.

Next she teamed with television director/producer Jim Shasky, and the pair won two Los Angeles Area Emmy awards for Best Feature Segments for their work for CBS in '86 and ‘87.

For ten years, MacBird and Shasky ran Creative License, a successful LA-based production company, known for scripted and documentary films on hi-tech subjects both for broadcast and for corporate clients ranging from Apple, IBM, Borland, Chips and Technology, and many others. Their work won many national awards including 11 Cine Golden Eagles, and top writing and directing medals from such prestigious groups as the NY Film and Television Festival, ITVA, and others.

More recently, Bonnie branched out into acting and graphic design. After studying Shakespeare at Oxford, and with the acclaimed Shakespeare and Co. in Lenox, Mass, she performed onstage in character roles ranging from "Puck" in Midsummer Night's Dream, to Lady Capulet, Dame Hannah in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, and many more roles. She has appeared in several independent features (one as a Jedi Knight) and on television as a gunslinging killer mom in the Sci-Fi channel's popular "Ten Seconds".

As a graphic designer, MacBird specializes in posters and postcards for live theater promotion, and website design.

Recently Shasky and MacBird reunited to produce the documentary film SQUEAKERS, about computers and kids, which was shot in hi-def in Los Angeles, Maine, New York, Tuscany, and Kyoto, and won four Emmys for category, directing, cinematography, and music.

MacBird has also completed her first novel, a mystery/thriller. She resides in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, noted futurist and computer scientist Alan Kay, whom she met while researching the movie TRON.

Her hobbies are watercolor painting, tennis, and roaming the Internet. Professional affiliations include Writer’s Guild, Screen Actor’s Guild, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Britain’s Royal Society of the Arts, the Valley Watercolor Society, and Stanford Alumni in Entertainment.