Lucy Alibar

Lucy Alibar (born Lucy Harrison, 1983) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild with Benh Zeitlin.

Early life Lucy Alibar was raised near Monticello, Florida; her parents are Baya M. Harrison III, a criminal defense attorney, and Barbara Harrison, an artist who taught painting classes in prisons. She went to high school in Tallahassee, Florida, where her mother worked, and began spending time reading in public libraries "until the library closed every day". It was there that she discovered experimental theatre and aspired to become a playwright.

Career Alibar attended New York University in Manhattan, where she studied under the Tisch School of the Arts' experimental theatre program. while Alibar won the award for Woman of the Year at NYU's Fusion Film Festival. Lucy wrote the screenplay for Where the Crawdads Sing.

Personal life Lucy married producer Pavun Shetty on August 29, 2022 in Florence.