Biography
Janet Scott Batchler is an American screenwriter, director and producer. She has written several films with her screenwriting partner and husband Lee Batchler, including the story and screenplay for Batman Forever (1995) and the screenplay for Pompeii (2014). Her other screen credits include My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure (2004) and an episode of the television series The Equalizer (1988).
Batchler is a professor of the practice of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she teaches screenwriting, adaptation and collaboration. She directed the award-winning short film The Spittin' Image (1997) and served as executive producer on Running for Grace (2018). She is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women and a former board member of the Alliance of Women Directors.
