Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born August 28, 1962)According to the State of California.
California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461 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. She 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.
She majored in Dance and Theatre at
Bennington College in
Vermont, but she later graduated from the
University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Film and Television Producing.
She worked on several television series between 1993 and 2003 before joining
The O.C.s writing staff, eventually leaving the show to write the
2006 film Step Up. From 2006 to 2009, she served as the head writer of the
Showtime series
Dexter, rising to executive producer by the time that she departed at the end of the fourth season. She wrote her second produced screenplay, a
film adaptation of
Stephenie Meyer's novel
Twilight in 2007 and has since adapted the novel's two sequels,
New Moon and
Eclipse. Rosenberg will also be...
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