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EXCLUSIVE: Chiara Atik has inked pinch CAA.
A playwright and screenwriter, Atik’s astir caller script The Helga Pictures, based connected nan existent communicative of creator Andrew Wyeth and a ungraded that rocked nan creation world, will beryllium produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov astatine Smokehouse Pictures.
Atik is besides nan writer of Fairy Godmother, a modern romanticist drama that reimagines nan fairy communicative genre done nan eyes of a sought-after fairy godmother who finds herself unexpectedly falling for nan prince she is expected to beryllium helping her customer win. Previously group up astatine MGM and Amblin Partners, nan task is being produced by Toby Emmerich and Helen Estabrook, pinch Sofia Alvarez attached to direct.
In nan theatre, Atik first came to attraction pinch her play Women, a modern return on Little Women that was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and won nan Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her plays include Poor Clare, victor of nan Francesca Primus Prize, nan LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and a finalist for nan Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, arsenic good as Five Times successful One Night, Bump and The North Pool.
Additional movie projects for Atik include A Senior Moment (fka Displacment), a 2023 Black List book being produced by Amy Adams; Beautiful Ruins for Amblin; On nan Ice for Disney; and Hamnet, for which she was nan first writer hired by Amblin and Neal Street to create nan adaptation. She is presently co-adapting nan Pamela Druckerman bestseller Bringing Up Bébé with her husband, Mark Hammer, for Netflix and penning an original drama characteristic for Jared Stern and Lord & Miller.
Also nan writer of Modern Dating: A Field Guide, Atik formerly served arsenic Sex Editor at Cosmopolitan and has been published location and by Glamour, New York Magazine and Refinery29. She presently has aggregate caller theatre projects successful improvement and continues to beryllium represented by Tom Drumm astatine Think Tank Management and lawyer Patrick Ragen.
