Cari Daly

Cari Daly has won AFI's William J. Fadiman Screenwriting Fellowship and AFI's Writers' Room Ready award. She has received over thirty Finalist, Semifinalist, and Quarterfinalist rankings, including Nicholl Quarterfinal, Nicholl Top 20%, Tribeca Sloan Top Five, Big Swing Finalist, Coverfly Red List Top Twenty Scripts of the Year, Page Semifinal, three Austin Second Rounds, and Finalist in We Screenplay Diverse Voices, Set in Philadelphia, The Launch by Screencraft, Stowe Story Lab Tangerine Fellowship, and New Orleans Film Festival, among others.

She is the grandchild of Irish gangsters, immigrants, Canadian mennonites and Southern orphans, who grew up in Washington, D.C., escaped to NYC and currently lives in South Central LA. Cari received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School where she was awarded the Artist and Scholar Award, the Playwrights' Horizons Award and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Scholarship. She continued to the AFI Conservatory, where she received her MFA in Screenwriting.

She recently concluded work as a staff writer on a new Ali Baba sci-fi romance series(now in pre-production) and currently has projects in development with showrunner Ed Decter (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, SHADOWHUNTERS), and producers Maor Azran and Thomas Hartmann.