Alysse Leite-Rogers

Alysse Leite-Rogers has over 25 years of experience working on Features, MOW’s, Pilots and Episodic Television. She started working with super8 film alongside her mother, shortly after she learned to walk. Following high school, she attended the Film/Television program at Humber College in Toronto, where she directed a number of 16mm short films. After graduating, she wrote a short film called THE ART OF BEING, a satire about the art world, which aired on CBC’s Canadian Reflections across Canada. For 22 years, Alysse worked as a 1st Assistant Director for many of the major US networks such as ABC, NBC, and Warner Bros, as well as Disney, FX, Showtime, Hulu, and Freeform. In 2017, she directed a 1 hr episode of NBCU’s dramedy GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE for Bravo.  Recently, her Award-winning short film TIPPED was one of ten films chosen to participate in the 2019 Manhattan Short Film Festival and was viewed in over 70 countries across 400 theatres. TIPPED was also recently sold to Bell Media's Crave platform. She has also co-created a 1 hr co-viewing action/adventure TV drama based on the American Newbery prize winning book CRISPIN AND THE CROSS OF LEAD. Alysse is part of ABC’s New Talent Pool and has just recently directed an episode of Berlanti’s action/sci-fi SUPERGIRL for Warner Bros/CW. This spring, Alysse will be directing two episodes of FAMILY LAW, a 1 hr dramatic series for Corus.