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.

IMDB

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