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Lisa Rose Snow was named by Women In View as one of Canada's top 3 emerging female directors in 2017. Her writing won the Telefilm New Voices Award in 2018, and she received a WIFT Award for Women Making Waves. Born and raised on the East Coast of Canada, Lisa Rose began her career in front of the camera. A graduate of the Dalhousie University Acting Program, she has appeared onscreen in film and television in numerous projects including TIFF Discovery Award winning All the Wrong Reasons, recurring on Sex and Violence, Haven, Saving Hope, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. In 2013 she was accepted into the AFCOOP FILM5 program where she wrote and directed her first short, Two Penny Road Kill. TPRK went on to win Best Canadian Short at the Silver Wave Film Festival, Best Juried Short at the Parrsboro Film Festival, Bronze for Best Film in The Coast Weekly, and appeared on CBC's Short Film Face Off. Lisa Rose was then awarded the NSI Drama Prize for her short film When Fish Fly, which had a strong international festival showing including playing at TIFF Kids and won Audience Choice at the San José Short Film Festival. She then moved to Toronto to participate in the Canadian Film Centre's Cineplex Screenwriting Program. As her focus shifted to primarily writing and directing, she has been in the writing room for major networks including Netflix, ABC, CBC, and HBO Max. Her work as a television director can be seen on BBC Kids, PBS, Amazon Prime, Makeful, and includes Emmy winning Odd Squad and Dino Dana. She directed Lockdown from her living room during the Covid-19 pandemic for YouTube Studios (1 million + views). In February 2021 season two of Odd Tube, which she directed, won the Kidscreen Award for Best Web Series - Branded, against Lucas Films and Mattel. She continues to live and create in Toronto.