Lisa Rose Snow (she/her) is an award-winning director, writer, and creator interested in timeless stories that smash stereotypes, celebrate the underdog, inspire hope, and have strong visual style.

In 2017, Women In View named her as one of Canada’s top 3 emerging female directors. In 2018, her writing won the Telefilm New Voices Award, and in 2013 she received a WIFT Award for Women Making Waves.

Her four short films have shown on four continents and played over sixty festivals, including TIFF Kids, bringing home multiple awards including Best Canadian Short (Two Penny Road Kill), Audience Choice (When Fish Fly) and Best Music (Meet Maurice Crosby). Recent directing credits include Covid-19 series (filmed entirely during lockdown) Lockdown for YouTube Studios (1 million + views), 7 episodes of Emmy-winning Odd Squad (PBS) and Emmy-winning Dino Dana (Amazon), the pilot for primetime comedy Rogue Bridal (Makeful), choose-your-own-adventure psychological thriller Trapdoor (eko), and season 2 of the Emmy-winning Odd Tube (Kid Screen Winner Best Web Series, PBS). She is thrilled to be smashing stereotypes with Lifetime TV, directing their first Christmas lesbian holiday romance, Under the Christmas Tree, to premiere in Dec 2021.

When not directing LRS can be found working in writing rooms on shows like Little Dog (CBC) where she co-wrote episode 104, Ten Days in the Valley (ABC), and Frontier (Netflix). She is currently an executive story editor and writer on Detention Adventure for HBO Max.

As a performer, her work ranges from the theatrical (like the time she lived on a train in Germany performing with the company Das Letzte Kleinod), to indie dramas like the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award-winning TIFF film All the Wrong Reasons, to TV's Saving Hope, Killjoys, and Haven, to name a few. 

She is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Cineplex Screenwriters Program and Dalhousie University’s Acting Program, and alumna of the Reykjavik Film Festival’s Talent Lab, the National Screen Institute’s Drama Prize Program, and AFCOOP’s Film5 Program.

LRS is a member of the DGC, WGC, ACTRA, Equity, WIFT-T, WIFT-AT and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

Not-for-profits she supports include: JRG Society for the Arts, Feed Nova Scotia, Parkdale Community Foodbank, Sistering, Water First , True North Aid, and the David Suzuki Foundation.

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She’s a queer Pisces Rising/Cancer Sun/Gemini Moon who definitely believes in magic.