Creative
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.
Food-repreneur
Sunny and his wife Sonia are co-founders of the growing CPG brand Mamas. After a health scare during Covid, the duo recklessly invested their savings into a commercial kitchen, determined to cure ailments naturally.
Inspired by their mothers' recipes, and Sonia's teachings as a scientist at UPenn, the two launched an original line of plant-based oils in Farmers' Markets across LA. Though slow to start, eventually, without any outside capital or ads, they became an Amazon #1 New Release.
Mamas was accepted into Target's accelerator and, in 2025, welcomed Prakash Janakiraman, Jennifer Styles, and Tyler Barth to its board. The brand is currently soft-launching into retail, raising its first round of funding, and expanding non-profit efforts in the sector of food equity.
Let's
work
together
If it involves a good story, a good meal, or a good deed, you have my attention.