Schroeder graduated from Melbourne High School in Florida.[8] While in high school, Schroeder interned at NASA, where Schroeder's grandparents worked.[9] She majored in economics at Stanford University,[9] and after working as a consultant for two years, Schroeder went to University of Southern California to earn a Masters of Fine Arts in the Film Production Program.[10]
In 2016, Schroeder married writer Aaron Brownstein. They have a daughter, Emily, born in 2016.[11]
Career
Schroeder began her writing career as a staff writer on 90210 and also wrote two made-for-TV movies.[12] She then when on to create the show Side Effects, a musical drama about a teenage girl and her family. Side Effects originally debuted in 2013 as a long-form special on the AwesomenessTV YouTube channel, co-produced by AwesomenessTV and Universal Cable Productions. It then went on to air as a 90-minute special on E!.[13]
In 2013, she also sold her spec script Agatha to Paramount Pictures with Will Gluck attached to direct; Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter were producing along with Benderspink. The script was described as an action adventure which surmises what really happened to Agatha Christie during the 11 days she went missing.[14]
In 2014, producer Donna Gigliotti hired Schroeder to pen the script for Hidden Figures, after optioning the book proposal by Margot Shetterly.[15] Schroeder interned at NASA and her grandfather and grandmother also worked there, providing her with first-hand insight in the world of NASA. She won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Humanitas and Veritas Awards for co-writing Hidden Figures.[16][17] Schroeder was also nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA, and WGA Award.
After Hidden Figures, Schroeder went on to co-write Christopher Robin starring Ewan McGregor for Disney, in which she said she spent months thinking up "Pooh-isms."[5] Schroeder was nominated for a second Humanitas Award for co-writing the script.[18]
In 2017, she also took out a pitch for a movie about Susan Fowler, the Uber engineer whistleblower. Good Universe beat out three other bidders to land Disruptors with Schroeder penning the script and Kristin Burr producing.[19]
In 2018, Schroeder joined Frozen II to co-write with Jennifer Lee.[7]Frozen II ended up breaking box office records, earning well-over a billion dollars.[20]
Schroeder was then tapped in 2019 to pen a script for the video game adaption of Minecraft at Warner Brothers.[21]
In August 2023, Netflix released Heart of Stone, an action-thriller starring Gal Gadot whose script was written by Schroeder and Greg Rucka.[22] The film was directed by Tom Harper and had over a 100 million views on Netflix, making it one of the most watched films on Netflix in 2023.[23]
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