Biography

Lisa Rose Snow won the 2023 Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a TV Movie for Lifetime's groundbreaking first lesbian holiday movie, Under the Christmas Tree. Under the Christmas Tree was also nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Award. Her work is celebrated for its strong visual style; and she is known to be an actor's director who infuses her sets with a spirit of collaboration and creativity. Her years as a writer and performer have influenced her work as a storyteller, and she is a nuanced director with a love of heart-punch comedy and experience across multiple genres with VFX.

Born and raised on the East Coast of Canada, Lisa Rose began her career in front of the camera. A graduate of the Dalhousie University Acting Program, she has appeared onscreen in film and television in numerous projects including TIFF Discovery Award winning All the Wrong Reasons, recurring on Sex and Violence, Haven, Saving Hope, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. In 2013 she was accepted into the AFCOOP FILM5 program where she wrote and directed her first short, Two Penny Road Kill. TPRK went on to win Best Canadian Short at the Silver Wave Film Festival, Best Juried Short at the Parrsboro Film Festival, Bronze for Best Film in The Coast Weekly, and appeared on CBC's Short Film Face Off. Lisa Rose was then awarded the NSI Drama Prize for her short film When Fish Fly, which had a strong international festival showing including playing at TIFF Kids and won Audience Choice at the San José Short Film Festival. She then moved to Toronto to participate in the Canadian Film Centre's Cineplex Screenwriting Program.

As her focus shifted to primarily writing and directing, she has been in the writing room for major networks including Netflix, ABC, CBC, and HBO Max. Her work as a television director can be seen on BBC Kids, PBS, Amazon Prime, Makeful, and includes Emmy winning Odd Squad and Dino Dana. In 2017 she was named by Women In View as one of Canada's top 3 emerging female directors. Her writing won the Telefilm New Voices Award in 2018, and she received a WIFT Award for Women Making Waves. She directed Lockdown from her living room during the Covid-19 pandemic for YouTube Studios (1 million + views). In February 2021 season two of Odd Tube, which she directed, won the Kidscreen Award for Best Web Series - Branded, against Lucas Films and Mattel.

Most recently Lisa Rose directed a new half hour fantasy/comedy for Netflix and has an original feature film and limited series book adaptation in development. She continues to live and create in Toronto and loves to shoot around the world.
- IMDb mini biography by: J Peck