Cassandra Rose

Instructor
LA Summer Program Coordinator

Cassandra is delighted to be celebrating her five-year anniversary with Writopia Lab! As a playwright, she followed up a BA in Playwriting at Columbia College Chicago with a decade of theatrical self-productions and residencies, including Chicago Dramatists' Tutterow Fellowship. Most recently, a workshop production of her steampunk play, Skyflint, was part of Haven Chicago's Director's Haven 7. As a screenwriter, she's a graduate of UCLA's Professional Programs in Writing for TV and Producing. In 2022, she won Austin Film Festival's bronze typewriter for her Scripted Digital Series. She’s also written for video games and fiction podcasts, including as a Narrative Designer for a small mobile gaming company and as a contract writer for Wondery. No matter the format or genre, she's here to help young writers connect deeply with their stories and with their audiences.