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I’m Roz Esposito, a native New Yorker, California transplant, Jewish/Italian, cisgender lesbian and social activist. I studied musical theater at Hofstra University and then transferred to Mannes College of Music, where I majored in voice. After graduating, I sang on national TV and radio commercials and my original songs were featured on national TV, in daytime drama and in Off-Broadway productions. 

My passion for finding the humor in all things led me to study and perform with the Groundlings East, where I honed my skills as a sketch writer, developing characters and performing weekly for two years on Theater Row. After moving to Los Angeles in 1998, my original one-woman show, Goodbye Coney Island, was produced at The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center’s Ed Gould Theater and named BEST BET in the LA Times. 

From 2000 through 2008 I studied script development and TV writing with various Los Angeles based writers. During that time, I wrote and performed stand-up comedy at major venues including the main room at The Comedy Store and the Ice Palace in Los Angeles.

In 2008, after reading of the classroom murder of 15-year-old trans student, Latisha King, by her classmate in Oxnard, California, I produced Teach Your Children Well, a documentary short about the murder, narrated by Lily Tomlin. But I wasn’t done. In 2011, I studied musical theater writing with Elise Dewsberry, of New Musicals, Inc., and began writing my first original musical, Living Over the Rainbow. The show was a 2018 Semi-Finalist for The Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference and that same year, Broadway producer, Terry D. Loftis, (The Visit, Bandstand) optioned the show. I am also proud to have been a Finalist in the last DGF Fellows submission process. 

In February of 2024 we did a 29-hour Equity workshop in New York City. After revisions we are now going back to New York to do a Tier 2 Equity workshop in April 2026.

Additionally, I’ve written a pilot for a TV episodic, a 10-minute play and have begun my next musical project about homelessness. I’m a member of SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild, BMI and The Orange County Playwrights Association.