Melissa Rosenberg

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Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born August 28, 1962) is an American screenwriter.

She has worked in film and television and has received a Peabody Award.

She has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards.

She has served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America and was a strike captain in the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

Through the WGA Diversity Committee and co-founded the League of Hollywood Women Writers, she advocates female screenwriters. She appeared on several television shows between 1993 and 2003 before joining The O.C. The show's writing staff eventually left the program to write the 2006 film Step Up.

She served as the head writer of the Showtime series Dexter from 2006 to 2009, rising to executive producer by the time she left at the end of the fourth season.

She wrote her second screenplay, the 2008 film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book Twilight, in 2007, and then adapted the novel's three sequels, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. Rosenberg is also known as the creator of Netflix's original series Jessica Jones.

Early life

Rosenberg was born in Marin County, California. Jack Lee Rosenberg, a psychotherapist and the maker of integrative body psychotherapy, is her father. Patricia Rosenberg, a prosecutor, was her mother. She was the second child by her father's first marriage. Steven, Melissa's brother, owns a flower shop in Manhattan. Rosenberg's father was Jewish and her mother had Irish Catholic roots, and she had a Jewish mother.

Rosenberg loved presenting plays and attracting other neighborhood children to participate in them as an infant. In Southern California, she attended a "massive public high school with a crowd of students assembled in a classroom and eager to learn." She travelled to New York City to work with a small theatre company before heading north to Bennington, Vermont, to Bennington College. She aspired to work in Dance and Choreography when she first started. She claims she started too late, so she moved to Los Angeles, California, instead of pursuing a career in film. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in film and television production from the University of Southern California's (USC) Peter Stark Producing Program.

Personal life

Rosenberg's mother died as a child after her father remarried to Lynn MacCuish; he later married Beverly Kitaen-Morse, a fellow therapist. Andrea (born 1960), younger brother and sister Erik and K. C. (twins), and her younger half-sister Mariya (born 1981), by her father's second wife.

Lev L. Spiro, a television producer, and Rosenberg live in Los Angeles. After yelling that "My sister is a dance therapist" at our wedding, half of the attendees were shrinks and the other half were their clients." Both my husband's parents and his wife are both shrinking. His uncle, two aunts, and sister are all shrinks.

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Career

Rosenberg's first project, Paramount Pictures' dance film, was never made. She then turned to television writing. She started writing for Class of '96 in 1993 and went on to produce such shows as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1995–1996), Ally McBeal (2001), and Birds of Prey (1996) before deciding to join The O.C.'s writing staff. In 2003, the first era of the internet was born. Leaving The O.C. She was recruited to write her second screenplay, the 2006 dance film Step Up, at the end of its first season. (Later, she was also offered the opportunity to write the sequel, Step Up 2: The Streets, but she turned down because she was swamped with other projects.)

Rosenberg went on to write for Love Monkey (2006) and Dexter (2005–2010). "Cable is the place to be," she said on the Showtime series, her first on a television show written for cable. On the first season, Rosenberg appeared as a consultant producer and writer. At the beginning of 2008, she and the other members of the Dexter writing group were nominated for the best Dramatic Series at the Writers Guild of America for their contributions to the first season. She began as a writer and editor for the second season in 2007 and spent time in this role until the third season in 2008. At the February 2009 ceremony, the writing staff was again recognized for the WGA for their contributions to the third season. She was also nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series award at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards as a member of the senior production team. She was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season of the series in 2009 and then began to write episodes. She was nominated for the WGA award for the third time in a row.

Rosenberg was given the opportunity to turn Stephenie Meyer's best-selling book Twilight into a film of the same name, which she accepted. Brokeback Mountain, which she characterized as a "great model" of forbidden love alongside Romeo and Juliet, was her primary inspiration for the adaptation, and the transition from short story to film was "beautiful." Meyer's "manifesto" had been written outlining everything that had to be included or could not be changed in the version. In August 2007, she wrote a lengthy 25-page outline, expecting to write the actual screenplay in two months, but she only had five weeks to complete the script before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began. She was hired by Summit to translate the sequels New Moon and Eclipse, the second and third books in the series, respectively, and she had already started writing the New Moon screenplay by November 2008.

Rosenberg resigned as a writer and executive producer on Dexter in July 2010, adding, "I've been writing Dexter and one Twilight or another" for the past four years. She was then assisting with adapting the final novel in the Twilight trilogy, Breaking Dawn, which was split into two films, and she said, "I can do one Twilight and Dexter, but I couldn't do two." She was regretful about leaving the show and called it her best television experience to date.

Rosenberg served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America for five years before resigning because "you get really wrapped up in it." She was very active in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America Strike, standing on the line as a strike captain. She is currently a member of the WGA Diversity Committee that supports female screenwriters, but she and several other women members of the League of Hollywood Women Writers, which she and several others women formed while on strike, aiming to combat the "boys' club mentality" in television writing rooms.

Rosenberg had been designing a Jessica Jones TV series for ABC, which would be based on Brian Michael Bendis' Alias comic book series. However, it was later revealed that ABC had ended on the program later in 2012. Following a Netflix and Marvel partnership, the show was revived as part of a four series and one mini-series contract in which Rosenberg was brought on to be the showrunner in October 2013. The series's official title of the series, Marvel's A.K.A., was revealed in December 2014. Jessica Jones. Marvel revealed in June 2015 that the series would be shortened to Marvel's Jessica Jones.

Rosenberg had signed a contract with Warner Bros. Television in August 2018 and would leave Jessica Jones after season 3. After three seasons, Netflix announced in February 2019 that it was canceling the series.

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