Instructor Bio

Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

B.A., Interdisciplinary Creative Arts, Magna Cum Laude. Graduate Coursework in Poetry and Fiction. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

Lisa Rosenberg is a narrative and documentary scriptwriter. She is currently rewriting HOME, a drama based on true events that was an Independent Film Week selection. She has adapted her most recent work, GRAFT, a period coming-of-age script, for an online theater production in 2023. Other circulating scripts include CURE, an international drama, and CRAWL SPACE, a psychological drama adapted from the novel by Edie Meidav and a finalist for the 2015 New York Women in Film and Television Writers Lab. Recent contract work includes script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK, a short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing CLIPPED WINGS (working title), a dramatic feature based on true events for Front Row Productions; co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions; and writing A PRAYER, a script for a short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher. Projects she has written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, a New York Film Festival Gold, and a nomination for a Peabody Award.