Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, actress and producer of screen, stage and prose. She is the original writer of the science fiction film Tron.

MacBird is a native of San Francisco, California and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in film.^[1] She is married to computer scientist Alan Kay.

Film career

MacBird has spent most of her career in Hollywood as a screenwriter and producer. She wrote the original drafts of Tron^[2][3] and received a "story by" credit. She worked in feature film development for Universal Studios in the 1970s, won two Emmy Awards as a producer in the 1980s, and was, for ten years, the head of a firm called Creative License/SkyBird Productions. She has a number of acting and writing credits in Los Angeles theatre.

She continues to write, direct and act in theatre in Los Angeles and is a voice actor for SkyBoat Media.^[4]

Novels

MacBird's recent career has focused on her Sherlock Holmes Adventure series for HarperCollins. Her first Sherlock Holmes novel, Art in The Blood, (2015) was followed by Unquiet Spirits (2017).^[5][6] A third, The Devil's Due, was released in 2019, followed by The Three Locks in 2021. Her fifth novel, What Child is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure, appeared in 2022 and was illustrated by Frank Cho.^[7]

Teaching

She lectures regularly on writing, the creative process, and Sherlock Holmes. She also teaches screenwriting at UCLA extension.^[8]