Barbara Rossi Prudente (b. Caserta) earned a degree in literature at the University of Naples. After a stint as assistant director on various film sets, she won the Premio Solinas for the screenplay of the feature Esterno sera (1999); she then studied at the Scuola di Fiction Mediatrade in MEDIASET (2000), where she taught in 2003. She has written screenplays for numerous TV series, including "Carabinieri", "Le stagioni del cuore", "Elisa di Rivombrosa", "Un posto al sole", "Commissario di bordo", "Finché morte non vi separi" and "La squadra". Her short Non ti aspettavo (2006) was presented at the Tribeca Film Festival in the short film competition category.
