Bonnie MacBird

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Bonnie MacBird
Born
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Writer
  • actor
  • theatre director
  • voice artist
Spouse
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(m. 1983)​
Websitemacbird.com

Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, actress and producer of screen, stage and prose. She co-wrote 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. 2025 saw the release of her sixth novel The Serpent Under.

Teaching

She lectures regularly on writing, the creative process, and Sherlock Holmes. She taught screenwriting at UCLA Extension's Writer's Program for ten years, in a curriculum she designed which was inspired by her visual art, theatre, and music studies.

References

  1. Admin (March 12, 2015). "Q&A with author Bonnie MacBird @macbird #killerfest15". KILLER READS. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  2. Gencarelli, Mike (September 27, 2011). "Bonnie MacBird talks about co-writing 1982's "TRON"". Media Mikes. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  3. "March 2002 Q&A; with Bonnie MacBird". Tron Sector. 2002. Archived from the original on January 9, 2003. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  4. "Bonnie MacBird Archives". Skyboat Media. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  5. Farrington, Joshua (February 24, 2015). "MacBird to pen two new Sherlock Holmes novels". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2025.
  6. Picker, Lenny (August 18, 2017). "Is Holmes Where the Heart Is?: PW Talks with Bonnie MacBird". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved October 27, 2025.