Rhonda Hayter was born in St. Jean, Quebec but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. She was an actress for some time, appearing in the First National tour of Neil Simon's, Pulitzer Prize winning play, Lost In Yonkers, and other plays, in New York and Los Angeles. For the Manhattan Punch Line theatre company, she worked with writers and writing, as a member of the selection committee for the company's critically acclaimed yearly One-Act Play Festival. For the last ten years, she has worked as a story analyst for film.