Virginia Root is a writer and director from South Jersey living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One time, as a kid, she was so determined to beat a neighbor boy in a foot race, she ran straight into a parked car. She lost a front tooth and won the race.
More recently, she won the 2024 George R.R. Martin Screenwriting Competition with her sci-fi pilot Deserters, received a grant from the non-profit New Mexico Writers, and became a Stowe Story Lab fellow in the New Mexico New Voices program. Virginia’s original pilot scripts, The Sisters Morrigan and Deserters, were second-round finalists at the Austin Film Festival in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Her short film, DEAD WEIGHT, premieres at Dances with Films: LA in June 2025.
Virginia is a Telly Award winning commercial director; the spot she wrote and directed for the New Mexico Summer Food Program was awarded a Silver Telly in 2025.
She is currently writing and developing her first feature film.