Sunny Tripathy is a writer / filmmaker who paid his way through UCLA with a myriad of day jobs that included a glamorous stint slinging smoothies at Jamba Juice. Eventually, he sold his first pilot to 20th CENTURY FOX, and -years later- sold a comedy series with SONY TELEVISION and Will Arnett to AMAZON after a highly competitive bidding war.

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In features, Tripathy cut his teeth developing his own dance comedy with Ivan Reitman and Amie Karp before selling it to TRISTAR. Though in turn-around after Ivan's passing, the project got Tripathy jobs writing for NETFLIX, SONY PICTURES ANIMATION, and DISNEY where he is adapting a live-action IP with the producers of Lord of the Rings.

 

In 2024, Sunny was brought on to write his first big animated feature at DREAMWORKS, with David Hoberman producing. And, in 2025, he was 1 of the 15 fellows chosen for Dan Lin's RIDEBACK RISE FELLOWSHIP.

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Tripathy is a member of the Writers Guild of America and is represented by UTA, 42, and Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman.