Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born in 1962) is an American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and won a Peabody Award. Since joining the Writers Guild of America, she has been involved in its Board of Directors and was a strike captain during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. She supports female screenwriters through the WGA Diversity ...
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Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born in 1962) is an American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and won a Peabody Award. Since joining the Writers Guild of America, she has been involved in its Board of Directors and was a strike captain during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. She supports female screenwriters through the WGA Diversity Committee and co-founded the League of Hollywood Women Writers.
Raised in Marin County, California, she majored in dance and theatre at Bennington College in Vermont but decided to pursue filmmaking instead, later graduating from the University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in film and television producing. She worked on several television series from 1993–2003 before joining The O.C.'s writing staff, eventually leaving the show to write the 2006 film Step Up. In 2006 she began writing the Showtime series Dexter, for which she...
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