MARY AGNES DONOGHUE (Screenwriter) previously adapted the novel Beaches for the screen. The film starred Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. She also wrote the original screenplays for the thriller Deceived, starring Goldie Hawn and John Heard, and The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon.

Donoghue wrote and directed Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.

Projects in development for Donoghue include the original screenplays Chasing the Dragon, which will star Cate Blanchett, Forests of the Night and The Time of our Lives, an adaptation of the novel Hot Flashes.

Her play, Me and Mamie O'Rourke, was staged at the Strand Theatre in London and the Palace Theatre in Watford, England.