Hatched out of the Hollywood system, Rust has been in the business since childhood and first joined both the Television Academy and the Producers Guild as a producer so she understands commercially viable projects. An Emmy-award-winner in comedy for television, she comes with a full set of credentials in writing comedy or drama. She has been under contract to develop for Disney and worked for all the networks in a career that spans both film and television. She is a team player and loves to adapt books to movies.