Randi Mayem Singer
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Randi Mayem Singer is a writer and producer.
Singer is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay to the 20th Century Fox blockbuster Mrs. Doubtfire. Singer studied political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi sorority. She then earned an M.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri.
Before screenwriting, Singer worked on air in the Los Angeles on such radio stations as KRLA, KRTH and KFI, using the name Randi Allison. She won the first annual UCLA Diane Thomas Screenwriting Award in 1987 for her screenplay A 22¢ Romance, which sold in a bidding war to Orion Pictures for Dennis Quaid to star. Although it launched her writing career, A 22¢ Romance has never been produced. It was listed in a January 1992 LA Times Calendar "Best Still On Paper" article. When Twentieth Century Fox optioned the children's novel Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, Singer was selected to adapt it to the screen.
Singer has worked on many films since then, including Chasing Liberty in 2004 and Aquamarine in 2006. Singer was also hired to adapt "The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle" by Esther Vilar for director Mike Newel and Pathe Films and recently wrote the screenplay for Adam Shankman's remake of Topper, set to be released in 2009.
Her television credits include creating and executive producing the sitcom Hudson Street (1995) and creating and executive producing the popular but short-lived comedic drama Jack & Jill (1999-2001) for the WB.
Singer is currently working with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on a comedy project with the working title M.I.L.F. and Cookies. According to a Variety article on February 15, 2007, the pilot has been picked up by the CW.
