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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 three sequels, ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', and ''Breaking Dawn''. She is married to television director Lev L. Spiro, and they live in Los Angeles. ==Early life== Rosenberg was born in Marin County, California. Her father is Jack Lee Rosenberg, a psychotherapist and the founder of integrative body psychotherapy. Her mother was Patricia Rosenberg, a lawyer. She was the second of four children by her father's first marriage and another by his second. Rosenberg's father was Jewish, and her mother was of Irish Catholic background.〔http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/jewish_screenwriter_newmoon_vampires_twilight_melissa_rosenberg_20091111/〕 As a child, Rosenberg enjoyed presenting plays and recruiting other neighborhood children to perform in them.〔 She attended a "massive public high school with a crowd of people bunched in a classroom and expected to learn" in Southern California. She later moved to New York City to join a small theatre company before moving again to Bennington, Vermont to attend Bennington College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg '86 crafts sharp characters for film and TV )〕 She originally aspired to work in Dance and Choreography. She says she began too late, however, so she moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career in the film industry instead. She graduated from the University of Southern California's (USC) Peter Stark Producing Program with a Master of Fine Arts degree in film and television producing.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melissa Rosenberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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