Maya Forbes

Maya Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, MA. She attended Harvard University where she spent four years writing for The Harvard Lampoon. During her freshman year of college, her play The Nestling was performed in New York as part of The Young Playwright's Festival. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to write for film and television.

She began her career on the HBO comedy, The Larry Sanders Show, and spent four years as a writer and producer on that groundbreaking show. She has since written numerous television episodes and feature films, including the animated Monsters vs. Aliens and the independent Seeing Other People, both of which she wrote with her husband, Wally Wolodarsky.

Maya also writes songs with her sister, China Forbes, who is the lead singer of the band Pink Martini. Infinitely Polar Bear is Maya's first film as writer and director. She was honored to be selected as one of Variety's 10 Directors to Watch in 2013. Maya lives in Santa Monica with her husband and their three children.

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