Barbara Nicolosi (born February 20, 1964) is an American screenwriter, script consultant and university professor of cinema and Great Books. Early life and education Nicolosi was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to Anthony and Hilda Nicolosi. She is the second of four daughters. Her youngest sister is the professional opera singer Valerie Nicolosi. When Barbara was five years old, the family moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where her father took a job as the archivist for the Naval War College. Anthony Nicolosi would go on to found the Naval War College Museum. She has a B.A. from the Great Books program at The College of Saint Mary Magdalen, a master's degree in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Career Barbara Nicolosi began her career in Hollywood as the Director of Project Development for Paulist Productions in Pacific Palisades. She was hired by producer Fr. Ellwood "Bud" Kieser and worked with him for two years. She has produced five plays at the award-winning Actors Co-op Theater in Hollywood. She has worked unofficially as a script consultant for scores of feature and television projects. Officially, she was a theological consultant on Saving Grace and for The Passion of the Christ. Nicolosi began her professional writing career as a media columnist for the Catholic monthly magazine Liguorian. In 2004, she moved her column to the National Catholic Register newspaper and the on-line site CatholicExchange.com. She won Catholic Press Awards for her media columns in 2002 and 2004. One of her columns was selected for the 2006 Loyola Press release, The Best Catholic Writing of 2005. She is the co-editor of the 2006 Baker Books release, Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith and Culture. She co-authored the 2016 book Notes to Screenwriters for Michael Wiese Books. Nicolosi has served as a judge or jurist on many cinema and arts panels. She was a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, on the film jury for the Catholics in Media Awards, a judge for the Catholic Academy's Gabriel Awards, a reader for the Humanitas Prize for screenwriting, and served for nearly ten years on the Blue Ribbon Jury of the Angelus Awards, student film festival. She was a board member of the City of Angels Film Festival ("One of the Top 10 Coolest Things to Do in LA," LA Weekly).