A. J. Thibault

A.J. Thibault is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist with over 200 professional accolades. His comedy Hal, The Spud King of Japan has won at the Houston Comedy Film Festival, Austin Comedy Film Festival, Rome Film Awards, Oxford Script Awards, and earned an Official Selection at the Festival International de Cannes.

His drama Crash Site has reached the Top 20% of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship — twice. His novel Ghost Town won the 2021 American Fiction Awards, and Identity earned the Literary Titan Gold Book Award (2026).

A UCLA MFA graduate who trained under Richard Walter and Danny Simon, Thibault spent years as a story analyst at MCA/Universal before devoting himself full-time to writing. He brings 21 original screenplays and a novelist's instinct for character to every project. Based in Northern California.