
Melissa Rosenberg
Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born August 28, 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. 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…
Acting
- 2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf2 ep.
Behind the camera
- 2015Marvel's Jessica JonesExecutive Producer, Story, Teleplay, Writer26 ep.
- 2013Red WidowExecutive Producer, Teleplay, Writer8 ep.
- 2006DexterCo-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer, Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay, Writer24 ep.
- 2003The O.C.Writer3 ep.
- 2002Birds of PreyWriter4 ep.
- 2001The AgencyWriter4 ep.
- 1998The Magnificent SevenStory, Supervising Producer, Writer13 ep.
- 1997Ally McBealStory1 ep.
- 1996Dark SkiesWriter3 ep.
- 1995The Outer LimitsWriter1 ep.
- 1995Hercules: The Legendary JourneysWriter2 ep.
- 1994Party of FiveWriter5 ep.
- 1993Class of '96Writer2 ep.
- 1993Dr. Quinn, Medicine WomanWriter3 ep.
Guest appearances
- 2016Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf2 ep.