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Allison Schroeder
Allison Schroeder is an American screenwriter and producer. She co-wrote the film Hidden Figures with Theodore Melfi, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Schroeder's other writing credits include Christopher Robin, Frozen II, Heart of Stone, and the newest of her writings, A Minecraft Movie.
Schroeder graduated from Melbourne High School in Florida. While in high school, Schroeder interned at NASA, where Schroeder's grandparents worked. She majored in economics at Stanford University, and after working as a consultant for two years, Schroeder went to University of Southern California to earn a Masters of Fine Arts in the Film Production Program.
In 2016, Schroeder married writer Aaron Brownstein. They have a daughter, Emily, born in 2016.
Schroeder began her writing career as a staff writer on 90210 and also wrote two made-for-TV movies. She then went on to create the show Side Effects, a musical drama about a teenage girl and her family. Side Effects originally debuted in 2013 as a long-form special on the AwesomenessTV YouTube channel, co-produced by AwesomenessTV and Universal Cable Productions. It then went on to air as a 90-minute special on E!.
In 2013, she also sold her spec script Agatha to Paramount Pictures with Will Gluck attached to direct; Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter were producing along with Benderspink. The script was described as an action adventure which surmises what really happened to Agatha Christie during the 11 days she went missing.
In 2014, producer Donna Gigliotti hired Schroeder to pen the script for Hidden Figures, after optioning the book proposal by Margot Shetterly. Schroeder interned at NASA and her grandfather and grandmother also worked there, providing her with first-hand insight in the world of NASA. She won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Humanitas and Veritas Awards for co-writing Hidden Figures. Schroeder was also nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA, and WGA Award.
After Hidden Figures, Schroeder went on to co-write Christopher Robin starring Ewan McGregor for Disney, in which she said she spent months thinking up "Pooh-isms." Schroeder was nominated for a second Humanitas Award for co-writing the script.
In 2017, she also took out a pitch for a movie about Susan Fowler, the Uber engineer whistleblower. Good Universe beat out three other bidders to land Disruptors with Schroeder penning the script and Kristin Burr producing.
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Allison Schroeder
Allison Schroeder is an American screenwriter and producer. She co-wrote the film Hidden Figures with Theodore Melfi, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Schroeder's other writing credits include Christopher Robin, Frozen II, Heart of Stone, and the newest of her writings, A Minecraft Movie.
Schroeder graduated from Melbourne High School in Florida. While in high school, Schroeder interned at NASA, where Schroeder's grandparents worked. She majored in economics at Stanford University, and after working as a consultant for two years, Schroeder went to University of Southern California to earn a Masters of Fine Arts in the Film Production Program.
In 2016, Schroeder married writer Aaron Brownstein. They have a daughter, Emily, born in 2016.
Schroeder began her writing career as a staff writer on 90210 and also wrote two made-for-TV movies. She then went on to create the show Side Effects, a musical drama about a teenage girl and her family. Side Effects originally debuted in 2013 as a long-form special on the AwesomenessTV YouTube channel, co-produced by AwesomenessTV and Universal Cable Productions. It then went on to air as a 90-minute special on E!.
In 2013, she also sold her spec script Agatha to Paramount Pictures with Will Gluck attached to direct; Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter were producing along with Benderspink. The script was described as an action adventure which surmises what really happened to Agatha Christie during the 11 days she went missing.
In 2014, producer Donna Gigliotti hired Schroeder to pen the script for Hidden Figures, after optioning the book proposal by Margot Shetterly. Schroeder interned at NASA and her grandfather and grandmother also worked there, providing her with first-hand insight in the world of NASA. She won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Humanitas and Veritas Awards for co-writing Hidden Figures. Schroeder was also nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA, and WGA Award.
After Hidden Figures, Schroeder went on to co-write Christopher Robin starring Ewan McGregor for Disney, in which she said she spent months thinking up "Pooh-isms." Schroeder was nominated for a second Humanitas Award for co-writing the script.
In 2017, she also took out a pitch for a movie about Susan Fowler, the Uber engineer whistleblower. Good Universe beat out three other bidders to land Disruptors with Schroeder penning the script and Kristin Burr producing.