Maya Forbes

Maya Forbes (right) at "Cinema Cafe" at the Sundance Festival, January 17, 2014

Maya Forbes is the writer and director of the feature film Infinitely Polar Bear (2014).[1][2] Her other writing credits include the screenplay of The Rocker (2008) and many episodes of The Larry Sanders Show. She was a co-executive producer of The Larry Sanders Show in its later seasons and executive producer of the sitcom The Naked Truth and the TV miniseries The Kennedys.

Forbes received a few Emmy nominations and WGA Award nominations for her work on The Larry Sanders Show.

Forbes is married to Wally Wolodarsky,[3] who was co-screenwriter of The Rocker and a producer of Infinitely Polar Bear. China Forbes (lead singer of Pink Martini) is Maya Forbes's sister.[1]

Forbes based Infinitely Polar Bear on her own experiences as a child in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when her father — who had bipolar disorder — was the primary caregiver for Forbes and her sister while their mother attended graduate school in New York City.[1]

Imogene Wolodarsky, Forbes's 12-year-old daughter, plays a fictionalized version of Forbes in Infinitely Polar Bear.[4] (The character's name is Amelia Stuart, but the film is described as autobiographical.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Horn (2014-01-21). "Maya Forbes revisits her childhood in 'Infinitely Polar Bear'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
  2. ↑ Peter Debruge (2013-12-17). "10 Directors to Watch: Maya Forbes to Unleash ‘Polar Bear’ at Sundance". Retrieved 2014-10-10.
  3. ↑ Dylan Callaghan (c. 2009). "Married to Their Work". Writers Guild of America, West. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
  4. ↑ Claudia Puig (2014-01-23). "This year, Sundance films take family to a new level". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-10-10.

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