School of Writing for Film, Television & Digital Media Faculty
Jana Sue Memel Executive in Charge of Brand Storytelling and the Schools of Entertainment School of Motion Pictures & Television
Jana Sue Memel is an Academy Award-winning producer and writer. Ms. Memel has produced over 25 movies and over 65 half-hour, live-action shorts that have played as television series in more than 30 countries. The films she has produced have won Writers Guild and Directors Guild Awards, Emmys, CableACE Awards and the Humanitas Prize.
Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Production Design Foundations
Position: Instructor and Production Design Lead Faculty
Industry Credits:
With a career in filmmaking spanning 5 decades (40 years and counting), I bring my professional experience into the classroom to expose students to the wonderful world of the Art Department and Visual Storytelling. Many of my former students are actively working in the Industry on numerous projects in a variety of roles.
Position: Part-Time Screenwriting Instructor in WRI and MPT
Industry Credits:
My film, “To The Stars” was selected to be in the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Features Category, 2019
My Lifetime movie, “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story” brought Heather Locklear out of retirement to star in 2021!
I was one of 10 writers to win BlogHer’s Voices-of-the-Year twice!
My personal blog, “The Woman Formerly Known as Beautiful”, peaked at 100,000 pageviews a month and was aggregated by The Huffington Post, Oprah Magazine, Your Tango, Scary Mommy, Self Magazine, Medium and featured on The Today Show, HuffPo Live and more.
