Vicky Waldron Wight was born in Co. Cork, Ireland. Wight wrote and produced Boy Genius with Rita Wilson and Miles Brown. It won its category in multiple film festivals and the script was a finalist at Tribeca Film Festival's Untold Stories Program. Her feature debut, The Volunteer, won Best Narrative Feature at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York and featured Aunjanue Ellis, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Scott Wolf, Hill Harper, and Mary Beth Hurt. Vicky recently adapted and directed novelist Katherine Center's The Lost Husband with Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel and Happiness for Beginners with Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes for Netflix. Vicky is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.