Tonya Hurley

Biographie

onya Hurley is an American writer and director in film, television, live performance, interactive media and the New York Times best-selling author of the book series ghostgirl (2008).

Her work includes Kiss My Brain (1997); The Biblical Real World (1998); Solo-Me-O (1999), first broadcast on PBS in their documentary series Reel New York; Baptism Of Solitude: A Tribute To Paul Bowles (2000), Tribeca Film Festival selection which aired on the Independent Film Channel, nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Award[1] in film and is being distributed on a DVD through The United Nations; and Best Friend (2001), which premiered at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival and was broadcast on Trio, and a feature length script, "Good Mourning" which made the semi-finals of the Sundance Institute's Writer's Lab.

Hurley was co-creator and co-producer of the sitcom So Little Time (ABC Family) and the animated series Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! (ABC) both starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She was the primary provider of original content for the mary-kateandashley website and creator and co-executive producer of mary-kateandashley brand video games for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy. She wrote, produced and directed commercials for Warner Home video, Playstation and Game Boy and developed mary-kateandashley dolls and boardgames for Mattel.

Hurley's most recent creation (as of 2008) is ghostgirl, launched in 2002 on ghostgirl.com and published as a Young Adult series from Little, Brown published on August 1, 2008. [2]

The first novel of the series has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly[3], Kirkus[4], VOYA and School Library Journal[5]. It hit the New York Times best-seller list[6] the week of September 14, 2008.