About H

H has a BLA in Screenwriting from Lesley University, in Cambridge, MA. She was salutatorian of her Full Sail University MFA Creative Writing for Entertainment graduate school class (where she happily cross-trained in screenwriting, episodic and serial writing for TV and the web, and won awards for storytelling and storyboarding for animation as well as game writing). She got her certificate in filmmaking at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has taken screenwriting masterclasses in screenwriting and is a graduate of the UCLA Extension Writing Screenplay Coverage course. She studied with or attended writing conferences with experts including Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, Sol Stein, Professor Richard Walter, Jeff Kitchen, Dr. Richard Krevolin, and more. H’s play Dark Eros, adapted into a suspense novelette of the same title, was staged as readings in Los Angeles, one of which starred Jessica Biel in the lead role as Leila.

H has taught advanced screenwriting coursework at the Creative Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles and for Scriptwriters Network on the CBS Radford Lot (including Breakthrough Writers Block, Alternative Story Development for Screenwriters, and Screenwriting from Both Sides of the Brain). Her undergraduate thesis research analysed the superiority of alternative versus traditional story development techniques for screenwriters in the context of hemispheres of the brain. It used tools and techniques drawn from brain science, expressive arts, and mind-body practices (An Examination of Traditional and Alternative Story Development Techniques for Screenwriters). The research examined how to access Writing Flow—lose track of time and write the maximum number of pages daily—while highly enjoying the process. A member of the Screenwriting Research Network, and Women in Film LA, her postgraduate practice-led creativity research explores writing flow, writer’s blocks, and creativity within the frameworks of human evolution, childhood development, and advancement of the individual female psyche and personality. Additional studies focus on voice development, critical attachment and identity issues, adult creativity, and the literary individuation process.

Recently, H spent several years living in Wales attending the Swansea University Creative Writing research programme as a PhD student. Her studies examined the mythopoetic of the SF genre in-depth. She writes science fiction, including a feature film screenplay about two Welsh girls surviving post-apocalyptic planet Earth. For her exegesis, she did creativity research and creative process investigation as part of a practice-led screenwriting research doctorate. While in Wales, she wrote and directed several short films including the Wales-set science fiction Super 8 short film Oer. It screened at straight 8 says hello bristol, and a digital-experimental animated version of that film short, Oer*, screened at Cinema & Co in Swansea, Wales. In 2018, Rose wrote and directed a Super 8 short film Sleep Disturbance, shot in Bristol, UK, which screened at The Cube Microplex Cinema. An excerpt of the play version of Sleep Disturbance was staged as readings at part of the Swansea University Rough Diamonds+ at the Taliesin Create Space, Swansea, Wales.

Lesser known facts about H include that she is vegan and a crystal-toting Pisces Decan 3. Her favourite place in the world is Savusavu, Vanua Levu, in Fiji (where she had a conjunctio experience, an out-picturing of the Hieros gamos, when she went on a walk amidst the shiny, verdant jungle, surrounded by the perfume tropical flowers, and came across an unexpected trio, a couple being married by an officiant, under a shimmering waterfall).