Lucy Barzun Donnelly

Lucy Barzun Donnelly is the executive producer of Grey Gardens.

She is the sister of Matthew Barzun and the granddaughter of Jacques Barzun.

Lucy Barzun Donnelly is an award winning film and television producer based in New York. She began her career by developing and co-producing Peter Hedges' Academy Award nominated Pieces of April with John Lyons and InDigEnt which premiered at Sundance starring Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson and Alison Pill. Under her films banner, she produced the critically acclaimed Sundance darling, The Go-Getter by writer-director Martin Hynes, starring Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone and Lou Taylor Pucci, which was released theatrically in June 2008, garnering acclaim from top critics at The New York Times,New York Magazine,Rolling Stone, and Variety.

She formed Locomotive with veteran producer Joshua Astrachan in 2007, where she developed and produced Grey Gardens with Rachael Horovitz and Michael Sucsy for HBO Films. Grey Gardens is a drama based on the real lives of Edith Bouvier Beale, made famous by Albert and David Maysles documentary of the same name. The film stars Jessica Lange, who won an Emmy for her performance and Drew Barrymore, who won both a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the troubled Little Edie. Donnelly was awarded an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Broadcast Critics Award, a Television Critics Award, and a Producer's Guild Award for Producer of the Year in 2010.

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