Career
She was an executive at the Disney Channel and has written dozens of specials, DVDs and series, including Arthur (Public Broadcasting Service), Rainbow Fish, Bill and Ted"s Excellent Adventures, and the animated feature Trumpet of the Swan. Rothman"s songs have been featured on many television programs and have been released on four Sony and Rhino CDs. She collaborated with Joe Raposo on the Madeline theme song and also wrote the lyrics for the theme song of the long-running Canadian series Mona the Vampire.
She has worked on many songs with New York composer Jeffrey Zahn of Arthur and JoJo"s Circus, as well as with British composer Andy Street on Madeline and Strawberry Shortcake.
She was the head writer and supervising producer of the Public Broadcasting Service Kids Consultants to Government and Industry animated series Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps and lyricist with Alex Rockwell for Jim Henson"s Pajanimals. She is currently developing an animated pilot for Amazon Studios.
Rothman has recently gained fame as the formerly anonymous Neurotic Parent author, essayist and anonymous blogger The Neurotic Parent (theneuroticparentcom), whose satiric guide to college admissions was published using the name Juris Doctor Rothman in March 2012 by Prospect Park Books. A previous portion of the blog was published anonymously in I"m Going to College, Not You, edited by Jennifer Delahunty, the dean of admissions of Kenyon College.
The book, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, based on the blog is titled The Neurotic Parent"s Guide to College Admissions.
Rothman is married to Peter Rofé, a bassist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. They live in Santa Monica, California and have two sons.
