Jude Roth

310.621.1697

http://www.juderoth.com

After spending time at the Berkshire County jail where her mother was Deputy Sheriff, tween Jude started a diary with this entry: “Last night I had my first dance (to Jingle Bell Rock) with a boy, an inmate at the jail’s Christmas party. His name is Smitty, he starts fires, and mom says he escaped.” Instead of joining the hunt for him (or hiding), Jude began exorcising her bemusement and bewilderment at life by writing personal, character-driven stories often set against big-world backdrops.

Jude's a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is an award-winning TV/feature drama writer. As an indie filmmaker, she wrote and EP’d a scripted drama about an undocumented day laborer that PBS and Latino Public Broadcasting acquired (twice). She's also won “Best Screenplay” at La Femme Int'l Film Festival and has had TV pilots featured on The Black List, The Black List Disability List, and WeForShe WriteHer List, the latter annually featuring 20 unproduced pilots selected from hundreds of nominations from industry executives and creatives. She's one of only 6 writers chosen for the 2019 Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab, was a finalist for the HUMANITAS New Voices in TV award, and is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Her scripts have advanced in contests such as Austin Film Festival (semifinalist), Writers Lab supported by Meryl Streep (semifinalist), PAGE (top 10), Writers Network/Fade In (8 quarterfinalist projects in one year), Slamdance (top 25), and Cinestory (semifinalist).

Fate also once thrust her into working in TV development at Skydance Media where she got to partake in how the proverbial sausage is made - and it was amazing (thanks, Fate!): The team there loves writers and it rocked.

To relax, Jude eats pizza all over LA, practices her baseball pitching skills (just in case she gets called up by the Red Sox or Dodgers one day), pets every dog she can, and worships at the altar of "Niles" in FRASIER reruns.

Honors & Awards

Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab - HOMEFRONT - 2019

WeForShe WriteHer List - SINS OF THE FATHER - 2018

Audible Development - Finalist - THE STING - 2021

non-WGA

Female

THE ASSETS

(Spy thriller)

After China executes dozens of CIA assets on Chinese soil, a reinstated CIA officer puts a dangerous revenge plan into action as her colleague's crisis of conscience threatens to bring her, the plan, and the Agency down.

HOMEFRONT

(Drama)

Struggling to salvage their post-military lives in America’s south, four very different women combat veterans turn to each other for support they can’t find elsewhere. But when the most vulnerable among them gets into serious trouble, the new friends close ranks to help her – risking their public and private lives.

SINS OF THE FATHER

(Geopolitical thriller)

A U.N. human rights worker discovers the truth about her beloved father's deadly identity and sets out to right the crimes he committed.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller

Female

unrepped