Jordan Rosenberg (born in

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) is an

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television producer and writer. Rosenberg is also credited in the sound department and as the assistant director of the

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film ''American Jedi'', a parody of '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and '' American Pie''.

Career

After graduating from the

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earning joint degrees from the university's Film and Dramatic Writing programs, Rosenberg was awarded Michigan's

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in Screenwriting. He then went on to work in the Drama Development departments at

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and

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, then known as ''Touchstone'', assisting in the launch of a number of the

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's new television series for

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, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' and afterwards spent a year in the ABC Writers Fellowship program. He then went on to become a member of the ''

'' crew, and wrote the

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episode "

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" as well as the new media cross-over '' The Lost Experience''. ''The Lost Experience'' was initially conceptualized by ''Lost'' showrunners

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and

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, who hired Rosenberg to write and design the game under the supervision of ''Lost'''s then Supervising Producer

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. Rosenberg then went on to join the writing staff of Grillo-Marxuach's

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series, ''

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'', writing two episodes: "The Boyband Superfan Interrogation" and "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome," which became the de facto series finale when ABC Family reduced the order from thirteen episodes to twelve. Rosenberg has also written for ''

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'', ''

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'' and multiple episodes of ''

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''.

References

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