Scotch Marmo also collaborated with novelist Soman Chainani in adapting The School for Good and Evil, a Netflix production directed by Paul Feig.
In 2012, Scotch Marmo received the Andrew Sarris award, which honors outstanding service and artistic achievement by distinguished Columbia Film Program alumni.
[5] While at Columbia's film school, Scotch Marmo's professors included Frantisek Daniel, Miloš Forman, Martin Scorsese, Annette Insdorf, and Vojtěch Jasný.
While Scotch Marmo was still enrolled in Columbia University's graduate film program, her thesis screenplay was acquired by producers Amy Robinson and Griffin Dunne.
For director Alfonso Arau, Scotch Marmo adapted Michael Golding's Simple Prayers, a novel set on a small Venetian island in the fourteenth century,[12] and for director Alfonso Cuaron, Scotch Marmo re-wrote Donald Westlake's Love in the Attic, based on the true story of a 1920s housewife who fell in love with a sewing machine repairman and hid him in the attic while her husband was at home.
Scotch Marmo received story credit for the film, which was released in 1998, and was directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer and starred Frances MacDormand.
In 2000, Castle Rock Entertainment and Playtone Company hired Scotch-Marmo to adapt Chris Van Allsburg's children's classic The Polar Express, to be directed by Rob Reiner and to star Tom Hanks.
[20] In 2009-2010, Scotch Marmo collaborated with leading Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar (Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters) to write a screenplay originally entitled Rafina.
Scotch Marmo has frequently served as a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Institute, mentoring developing filmmakers in labs held in Provo, Utah and Mumbai, India.