St. John, who has a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from George Mason University and is a ballet teacher at Joy of Motion Dance Center in Northwest D.C., will premiere her first full-length movie — “Conquering the Rose” — at Fairfax’s Cinema Arts Theatre (cinemaartstheatre.com) Sunday evening. She not only wrote and co-produced the movie, which was originally a novel she wrote as her master’s thesis, but she also has a role — the deceased dancer in other characters’ flashbacks — in the dark drama, which was filmed in Northern Virginia and Maryland. From dancing to acting, I get it. But why screenwriting?

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