EXCLUSIVE: Chiara Atik has inked with CAA.
A playwright and screenwriter, Atik’s most recent script The Helga Pictures, based on the true story of painter Andrew Wyeth and a scandal that rocked the art world, will be produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse Pictures.
Atik is also the writer of Fairy Godmother, a contemporary romantic comedy that reimagines the fairy tale genre through the eyes of a sought-after fairy godmother who finds herself unexpectedly falling for the prince she is supposed to be helping her client win. Previously set up at MGM and Amblin Partners, the project is being produced by Toby Emmerich and Helen Estabrook, with Sofia Alvarez attached to direct.
In the theatre, Atik first came to attention with her play Women, a contemporary take on Little Women that was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and won the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her plays include Poor Clare, winner of the Francesca Primus Prize, the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, as well as Five Times in One Night, Bump and The North Pool.
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Additional film projects for Atik include A Senior Moment (fka Displacment), a 2023 Black List script being produced by Amy Adams; Beautiful Ruins for Amblin; On the Ice for Disney; and Hamnet, for which she was the first writer hired by Amblin and Neal Street to develop the adaptation. She is currently co-adapting the Pamela Druckerman bestseller Bringing Up Bébé with her husband, Mark Hammer, for Netflix and writing an original comedy feature for Jared Stern and Lord & Miller.
Also the author of Modern Dating: A Field Guide, Atik formerly served as Sex Editor at Cosmopolitan and has been published there and by Glamour, New York Magazine and Refinery29. She currently has multiple new theatre projects in development and continues to be represented by Tom Drumm at Think Tank Management and attorney Patrick Ragen.
