Award-winning screenwriter and Freelance Copywriter
Greater San Diego Area
- Current
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- Freelance Copywriterat yourwriterforhire.com (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Film presenter and Q&A panel moderator at San Diego Film Festival
- Consultant/ Senior copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather, France
- Assoc. Creative director at Young & Rubicam France
- Associate Creative Director at Lowe Paris (formerly Lowe Lintas, Ammirati Puris Lintas, Lintas Paris)
- Associate Creative Director at Lintas:Worldwide
- SVP, Associate Creative Director at Lintas
- Senior Copywriter/ Associate Creative director at SSC&B/Lintas
- Copywriter at Young & Rubicam
- Education
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- Brown University
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Lisa Rothstein’s Summary
In my first life, I was a copywriter and associate creative director on Madison Avenue and in Paris in huge multinational ad agencies. Now I've gone Hollywood and turned my hand to screenwriting as I continue to support my freelance clients with my copywriting services.
My first script, Brit or Miss, was the winner of the Comedy Category at Screenwriting Expo 2, a Top 12 Finalist at the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition, and semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival and Chesterfield Writers' Project competitions.
I am represented by Caren Bohrman of The Bohrman Agency in Beverly Hills, and by manager Andrew Kersey. I've written five screenplays so far, all comedies or romantic comedies, and am at work on a sixth.
I still apply my ad background, both "in the room" pitching my screenplays and as a freelance copywriter and creative consultant for clients, ad agencies and book authors in the US, the UK and France. Check out my website at: www.yourwriterforhire.com where you'll find samples of both my copywriting and screenwriting work.
Along the way so far, I have also been a portrait artist, a cartoonist, a translator/subtitle editor, a musician at weddings, funerals and at Disneyland Paris, an English teacher in France and a street performer in New York City. I've just started producing an internet radio show with host and TV Historian Jim Benson, about the history of television and its impact on society today. (see www.tvtimemachine.com)
Considering the above, it's no surprise that I'm currently co-authoring a book of life-management advice for multi-talented people entitled "The Da Vinci Dilemma", that offers tips, strategies, exercises, role models and encouragement for making the most of your many gifts without driving yourself --and everyone around you-- crazy. Look for the website early next year and the book in the second half of 2009!
Lisa Rothstein’s Specialties:
Screenwriting: Comedy, dialogue, script doctoring
Advertising Copywriting: Taglines and slogans, jingles, consumer packaged goods, high-tech, international brands, press releases.
Advertising-related skills: presentation, audio and video production, PR/press releases and internet marketing, visual thinker and illustrator, strategy, French language and French-English translation, extensive international experience
Lisa Rothstein’s Experience
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Freelance Copywriter
yourwriterforhire.com (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)
For the past few years since my return Stateside from Paris, I've been working as a freelance copywriter for a variety of agencies and clients including Vivendi Universal Games, Sun Microsystems, Lenox, Objective Integrated Communications, TablePronto.com, La Redoute, Centric and more.
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Film presenter and Q&A panel moderator
San Diego Film Festival
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)
Introduced films and filmmakers in theaters, moderated post-screening Q&A's, assisted Festival staff, guests and filmmakers, brainstormed marketing for films. (Volunteer position)
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Consultant/ Senior copywriter
Ogilvy & Mather, France
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)
Created campaigns for Europe. Short-term six-month freelance position.
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Assoc. Creative director
Young & Rubicam France
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2001 — October 2001 (10 months)
Worked on international Colgate Brands
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Associate Creative Director
Lowe Paris (formerly Lowe Lintas, Ammirati Puris Lintas, Lintas Paris)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 1993 — February 2000 (7 years 1 month)
Created international campaigns for IBM, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson
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Associate Creative Director
Lintas:Worldwide
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1988 — 2000 (12 years)
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SVP, Associate Creative Director
Lintas
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 1988 — February 1993 (4 years 8 months)
Worked on creative and new business pitches: IBM, Hanes, Johnson & Johnson, Lever Bros. brands
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Senior Copywriter/ Associate Creative director
SSC&B/Lintas
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1988 — 1992 (4 years)
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Copywriter
Young & Rubicam
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 1982 — July 1988 (5 years 11 months)
Chosen as one of 6 college recruits for the Copywriter Training Program. Worked on American Home Foods, National Urban League, American Cancer Society, KFC, Dr Pepper, Dannon, Kraft, Colgate/Palmolive brands
Lisa Rothstein’s Education
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Brown University
BA, Semiotics, 1978 — 1982
- Activities and Societies:
- Alpha Chi Omega, Brown Band, Brown University Chorus, Brown Daily Herald, Brown Fencing team, Brown Equestrian Team, Rhode Island Civic Chorale, Choir of St. Stephen's Church Providence RI,
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Lisa Rothstein’s Interests:
Screenwriting, Movies, TV, Broadway & Theatre, Comedy, Cartooning, watercolor painting, oil/acrylic painting and portriature, choral singing, Classical music, opera, country/western music, golf, scuba, horseback riding, foreign and domestic travel, French language
Lisa Rothstein’s Groups:
Alpha Chi Omega, Screenwriting Expo, San Diego Master Chorale, San Diego Film Festival
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SSC&B/Lintas NY -
A Solo Business - Solopreneurs And Business Owners -
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ThoseInFilm (Motion Pictures & Film Industry) -
French Connection -
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"Write It Down"-A Website for Writers -
Publishers & Book sellers association -
Freelance Success -
Ogilvy: Past, Present & Future -
Hooray for Hollyworld! -
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Baby Boomer Marketing Group -
Interpublic Alumni -
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Creative Fortune Cookie Group -
Boomer Nation -
Screenwriting For Hollywood -
CPN - Coaching Practice Network
Lisa Rothstein’s Honors:
Screenwriting Expo 2 - WINNER, comedy genre category
Slamdance Screenwriting Competion - Top 12
Austin Film Festival Screenwiritng Competition - Semifinalist
Chesterfield Writers' Project Screenwriitng Competition - Semifinalist
Advertising Awards: Clio nominee, EFFIE, MOBIUS, CEBA
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