Rose McAleese

Rose McAlees started her career when she wrote and directed a short film about her dyslexia that won the Grand Jury Prize at the SIFF Young Filmmakers Festival then was hired as a PA for a feature-film company. She moved into performance as a spoken-word artist in 2006 and wrote the book Strong. Female. Character. Her free-lance journalism has appeared in several print and online publications including The New York Times and she has been a featured speaker at TedxWomen and Talks at Google. Rose studied at the prestigious women writer’s collective Hedgebrook and is an Alumni of Hugo’s House of several classes.

She was awarded a fellowship in the Universal Pictures Emerging Writers Fellowship Program in 2016-2017. She has also been staffed as a writer for the second season of The Quad, a television drama on BET, writer and Consulting producer for the Netflix’s comedy SNEAKERHEADS. Her most recent work was writing jokes for Netflix’s AMERICAN PIE: Girls’ Rule.