Tristine Skyler

Tristine Skyler is an American actress, playwright, writer and producer who grew up in New York City, where she was born. She studied English at Princeton University and graduated cum laude. Her play The Moonlight Room, a look at at-risk young people in the city, was staged in 2003 at the TriBeCa Playhouse and then moved to a commercial Off-Broadway run on Theater Row; The New York Post and The New York Times each counted it among the year's ten best plays. She co-wrote the feature Getting to Know You, drawn from short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, which premiered at the Sundance and Venice festivals and Ebert and Roeper gave it Two Thumbs Up. In 2005 Julia Stiles hired her to adapt Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, and she later originated and executive produced The Man Who Knew Infinity, with Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.