Tristine Skyler Movies and Career Information

Tristine Skyler (born July 27, 1971) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. She grew up in New York City and graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University in 1993. She has performed on television, in the movies as well as in the theater. Her writing credits include the feature film "Getting to Know You," based on short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which starred Zach Braff, Chris Noth, Heather Matarazzo and Bebe Neuwirth. It played at the Sundance and Venice Film Festivals, as well as festivals around the world. Skyler is the author of the play "The Moonlight Room",, which premiered at the TriBeCa Playhouse in 2003 before transferring to a commercial run Off-Broadway at the Beckett Theater on Theater Row. It was nominated for two Lucille Lortel awards, and the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for Best New American Play. It was named one of the 'Ten Best Plays of the Year' by The New York Times and The New York Post," and has since been performed all over the country. In 2005, the actress and producer Julia Stiles hired her to adapt Sylvia Plath's famous novel "The Bell Jar" for the screen. She is currently adapting "Hetty: The Madness and Genius of America's