EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning author, screenwriter and producer Charles Yu has signed with Blue Marble Management for representation across film, television, and all media.
Yu created, executive produced and served as showrunner of Interior Chinatown based on his novel of the same name, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, for Hulu and 20th Television. His series adaptation was directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Dan Lin, Participant, and Garrett Basch. He also served as an executive producer on American Born Chinese, for Disney+ and 20th Television.
He is currently writing and executive producing the television adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas, the first novel in the Scottish author’s classic Culture book series, for Amazon MGM Studios. The project hails from executive producers Chloé Zhao through her company Book of Shadows; Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Nina Wolarsky at Plan B; and Adele Banks.
Hs other writing-producing credits include Westworld for HBO, for which he received two WGA Award nominations, Sorry For Your Loss starring Elizabeth Olsen, Legion for FX, Here and Now for HBO, and Lodge 49 for AMC.
Yu also is currently penning features for Searchlight Pictures.
In addition to his novel Interior Chinatown, Yu penned How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. His short story My Last Days As Me won the Robert Olen Butler Prize and his short story Third Class Superhero was honored with the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award in 2004. His works have been cited in multiple year-end ‘Best Of’ lists, and have appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Harvard Review.
A first-generation Taiwanese American, Yu is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he studied molecular and cellular biology, and Columbia Law School, where he obtained his J.D. He was a successful corporate attorney for many years before transitioning into writing.
Yu joins Blue Marble Management’s roster that includes Oscar winners Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity), Chris Terrio (Argo), Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), Emmy winners and nominees Lena Waithe (Master of None, The Chi), Prentice Penny (Uncorked, Insecure), Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Little Marvin (Them: Covenant), among others.
He continues to be represented by UTA, Ken Richman and Robby Koch of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs, and Fox L.L.P. In publishing, he is represented by Julie Barer at The Book Group.
