Adele Lim

Adele Lim is an American film and television producer and screenwriter. She has worked on Hollywood headliners for more than twenty years and was most recently lauded for bringing cultural authenticity to the blockbuster hit, Crazy Rich Asians.

Born and raised in Malaysia, Adele always knew she wanted to be a writer and started a weekly column in a local paper as a teenager.  After graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in TV/Film in 1996, Adele planned to return to Malaysia and a career in copywriting. When a friend suggested Los Angeles and the pursuit of writing for television, Adele was all in. Her first big break came in 2000 as a writer’s assistant for the television series, Xena: Warrior Princess. Since then, she has written and produced numerous television hits including, Las Vegas, One Tree Hill, Private Practice and Lethal Weapon.

In 2018, Adele broke into writing feature films with Crazy Rich Asians. Adele dropped everything to co-write the script feeling that she finally had an opportunity to write for her own culture. Adele recently completed the script for Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon,” due to be released in 2021.

Adele mentors young writers at the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment.