Manya Garbat Starr (January 21, 1921 - July 26, 2000) was an American writer who worked on radio and television programs.
[1] After Starr's college graduation she became a production assistant for the Theatre Guild, after which she was a script reader for producer John Golden.
She was an intelligence officer[3] as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the WAVES for two years[2] during World War II, after which she resumed writing for radio,[3] selling her first script to Columbia Workshop.
Other radio programs for which she wrote included Mr. Chameleon, Evelyn Winters,[4] Doctor's Wife, The Egg and I, First Love, and Paradise Bay.
The executive producer of American Masters, Susan Lacy, said, "They're very open, they're wonderful people to work with — very intelligent, very talented, very tenacious.