Tommy Wiseau

Tommy Wiseau originally wrote The Room as a play in 2001.

Emma Donoghue , an Irish-Canadian writer,

Emma Donoghue, an Irish-Canadian writer, wrote the novel Room in 2010, telling the story of Joy Newsome (played brilliantly by Brie Larson) who ends up being abducted as a 17 year old and kept prisoner for 7 years in a compact room in the backyard of a maniac in Ohio.