Allison Schroeder

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Allison Schroeder

Allison Schroeder is an American screenwriter . For her screenplay for Hidden Figures , which she wrote with Theodore Melfi , she was nominated for the best adapted screenplay at the 2017 Academy Awards.

Life

Allison Schroeder grew up in Cape Canaveral , Florida . She attended Melbourne High School , where she graduated in 1997. She started her film career as a production assistant. After a few short films, she was involved in the sixth and seventh seasons of the television series Smallville . Ananas Express followed in 2008 . Then she began to write. Her first film script was an episode of the television series 90210 . This was followed by the television film Girls Club 2 - Beware of the biting! (2011) and Ladies Man: A Made Movie , some episodes of the musical television series Side Effects and Miss 2059 .

2016 she wrote together with Theodore Melfi the screenplay for Hidden Figures - Unrecognized Heroines for a non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly , which tells the story of three African-American mathematician, who decisively on Mercury and the Apollo program of NASA were involved. Schroeder was hired because she had worked for four years at NASA during her high school years, where her grandparents were also employed as technicians in the 1960s and 70s. For this script, she and her co-writer were nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA , a Satellite Award and a WGA Award .

Schroeder is on the board of the Writers Guild of America Women's Committee and a member of the WGA Diversity Advisory Group.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From Melbourne High to Academy Awards: Allison Schroeder. Florida Today, accessed February 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Interview: Allison Schroeder on Bringing the Inspiring Hidden Figures to the Screen. Awardsdaily.com, December 15, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Verve Signs 'Hidden Figures' Scribe Allison Schroeder. Deadline, December 6, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Allison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century