Bio
Dagny is Mexican-American and grew up in rural Arkansas where her grandparents ran the town's local funeral home. As a high school senior, she studied cellular automata at the Research Science Institute at MIT and went on to co-win the prize for Artificial Intelligence at the Intel International Science Fair.
She earned her BSc in Astrophysics at Caltech, studying extrasolar planets. While in college, she captained a microgravity flight team onboard the KC-135 jet out of NASA's Johnson Space Center.
She went on to get her PhD in astronomy in Hawai'i, where she started making short films and decided she wanted to tell stories inspired by science. She moved to NYC where she earned her MFA in filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Dagny lives in Los Angeles where she works as a screenwriter. She is currently writing a pilot for Showtime and a sci-fi feature for T-Street.
Education
NYU Tisch School of the Arts / directing / MFA
Institute for Astronomy / Astronomy / Ph.D.
Caltech / Astrophysics / B.Sc.
UCL / Astrophysics / exchange program
Caltech Ast Director of the Research Science Institute
MIT Research Science Institute Alumna
Dagny Atencio Looper
Writer, Director, Science Consultant, Astronomer
Contact:
Amar Hansen Adam Weinstein, Manal Hammad,
(Manager) Michael Chung, Jake Dillman (Agents)
Anonymous Content Verve Talent and Lit Agency
(310) 558-6281 (310) 558-2424
Film Credits
Writing
Outer Range - S2, Co-ep, TV series for Amazon / 2022
The Resort, Co-ep, TV series for Universal & Peacock / 2021
Beacon 23, Sup. Producer, TV series for Boat Rocker & Spectrum / 2020-21
Hijacked, Writer, Feature film for Warner Brothers / 2021
See - S3, Producer, TV series for Chernin / Endeavor & Apple+ / 2020
Extrapolations, Story Consultant, TV series for Media Res & Apple+ / 2019
Calls, Co-Producer, TV series for Studio Canal & Apple+ / 2019
Strange Angel, Story Editor, TV series for Scott Free & Paramount+ / 2018-19
Brave New World, Staff Writer, TV series for Amblin & Universal / 2018
Directing
Tiny Mammals (2017), Writer/Director, NYU thesis film
The Lipstick Stain (2014), Writer/Director, NYU short film
FILM Awards
Sleeping with the Dead (feature): Cannes Film Festival WScripted List, Black List Labs, NYU Purple List
Singularity (feature): $100,000 Sloan finalist, NYU Purple List
Hollywood Foreign Press Association award
Fusion Film Festival winner for best TV script
Academic awards
National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, NYU
Maurice Kanbar and Leo Rosner scholarship, NYU
Best Masters Thesis, Institute for Astronomy
Mellon Mays Fellow, Institute for Astronomy
Caltech Presidential Scholar, Caltech
Marcella and Joel Bonsall Prize for Writing, Caltech
Burns Prize for Planetary Sciences, Caltech