Marilyn Fu is an American writer of Taiwanese descent with a focus on adaptations and true stories that explore American themes with a multicultural lens for a wide audience.
She’s currently writing on Peacock’s espionage thriller series, starring Simu Liu and executive produced by James Wan. She wrote the feature film ROSEMEAD starring Lucy Liu, based on the award-winning LA Times article, “A dying mother's plan: Buy a gun. Rent a hotel room. Kill her son.” Also in features: THE HONOR LIST, executive produced by Zoe Saldana and released by Lionsgate, and THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser, for which she won the Creative Promise Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. She has sold and developed projects with Destin Daniel Cretton, Gabrielle Union, Will Packer, Daniel Dae Kim, Janet Yang, and others.
Marilyn's journalism background includes being a researcher for T: The New York Times Style Magazine and a writer/reporter for LIFE Books; she has been involved in over forty publications for Time, Inc. She wrote and co-produced a sold-out run of her play BREATHER which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2017, the Tracking Board named her one of the Top 100 New Writers in Hollywood on the Young and Hungry List.
Marilyn was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she was the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and later taught television writing. She lives in San Gabriel, CA, with her husband, actor Graham Sibley and their sons, Lyon and K.P.
