Pamela Garcia Rooney

Pamela García Rooney is a Mexican-American screenwriter born and raised on the US-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. She earned a master's degree in school counseling after receiving a BA in English with a minor in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin where she focused on writing poetry and fiction. Pamela trained as an actor and playwright. She is a fellow of the 2018 NBC Writers on the Verge program and the 2018 NHMC writing program. In addition to being on the 2018 Young & Hungry List, her feature script Me & Tammy Faye at the Betty Ford Clinic was on The Black List 2018, the 2019 Bitch List and the inaugural 2019 GLAAD List, a catalog of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive film scripts. Previously a middle and high school English teacher, she now writes full-time and lives in LA with her husband and two children.