Joanne Rose

Joanne Rose is a screenwriter and producer. She was was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia and is both an Australian and US citizen who lives in Los Angeles. Growing up in the 80's, Joanne was raised on slasher movies from the 70's and 80's by Dario Argento, Stephen King, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, and Sam Raimi, to name a few. However, that soon expanded into other genres such as comedy and drama, especially films by John Hughes. Joanne began her career as a model and studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in LA. After joining a theatre company in LA, she developed a taste for writing, when the female members of the company were asked to write and perform their own sketches. She fell in love with the whole writing process, and it inspired her to create her very first project, a sketch comedy web series called Vegan 101, which she wrote, produced and performed in. It became a multi award-winning series and starred Oscar-nominated actor, Eric Roberts in Season 2, with music by Keaton Simons. The series ran from 2009 - 2012 and syndicated on various web platforms. With a successful web series behind her, Joanne was eager to move on to bigger things, by learning to write for Film and TV. She studied Writing for Comedy and Writing for Television at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and undertook screenwriting courses and programs in LA. In 2015, she founded Sweetest Pit Bull Productions, which focuses on female-driven comedy, horror and thriller films for women over 40.