Erin Cressida Wilson

Erin Cressida Wilson is an award-winning and internationally produced screenwriter and playwright. She won the 2003 Independent Spirit Award for her acclaimed screenplay, Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal; this marked her first produced film with director Steven Shainberg. Her second collaboration with Shainberg was Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman as well as Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Robert Downey, Jr.

Her projects include a remake of The Hunger for Tony Scott and Warner Brothers, as well as The Resident for Spitfire Pictures starring, two-time Academy Award winning actress Hilary Swank.

Wilson's stage plays have been produced Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally, at such theatres as The MarkTaper Forum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, The Magic Theatre, The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and The New Grove in London.

Previously a professor and Director of Graduate Dramatic Writing in the Program of Literary Arts at Brown University and Duke University, she ran the Dramatic Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Wilson has won awards from the National Endowment For The Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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