About me
Robin Swicord is primarily known for her work as a screenwriter for Memoirs Of A Geisha (Satellite Award for best screenplay); the 1994 Little Women (Writers Guild award nomination, Satellite award); Matilda (with her husband Nicholas Kazan); and the cult comedy Shag; The Perez Family; Practical Magic. In 2009 Swicord received an Oscar nomination for her contribution to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a project Swicord originated and worked on for more than a decade. Swicord made her feature-directing debut with Sony Classic’s The Jane Austen Book Club, produced by Julie Lynn and John Calley, for which Swicord also wrote the screenplay adaptation. She also wrote and directed Wakefield, for Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. As both writer and co-Executive Producer, Swicord collaborated with Ava DuVernay on DuVernay’s five-part miniseries, When They See Us, for Netflix.
Swicord served for seven years as a Governor for the Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. She mentors for the Sundance Screenwriting lab and Film Independent’s creative labs. She is an honorary professor at the Munich film school, HFF, where Swicord teaches an annual 10-day screenwriting workshop that focuses on narrative and the elements of drama.