Melissa Rosenberg

Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born 1962) is a Jewish American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has been nominated for one Emmy Award and two Writers Guild of America Awards. Raised in Marin County, California, she majored in dance at Bennington College in Vermont but decided to... Read More

Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born 1962) is a Jewish American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has been nominated for one Emmy Award and two Writers Guild of America Awards.

Raised in Marin County, California, she majored in dance at Bennington College in Vermont but decided to pursue filmmaking instead, later graduating from the University of Southern California with a 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 for Showtime series Dexter, for which she continues to write. She wrote her second produced screenplay, a film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel Twilight, over five weeks in 2007, and has been hired to adapt the novel's two sequels, New Moon and Eclipse. She is married to television director Lev L. Spiro, with whom she lives in Los Angeles. See Less