Janet Brownell
Producer and Screenwriter

Janet Brownell grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and had an illustrious six-week post-graduate experience in law school. After dropping out of law school, she took a hard look at her life. It was then she decided to pursue a career in television and film.

Janet’s first job in the ‘biz’ was as a receptionist in the personnel office at CBS Television. It was in this position she discovered she was not a ‘people person.’ Over five years she went from the personnel office, to a secretarial position in Broadcast Standards, to becoming a script reader at Columbia Pictures. Finally, she secured a low-level development position in the studio’s television division. While sitting across from a writer one afternoon, she thought to herself, “I could be as mediocre as you are and make a living.” And her writing career began.

Janet wrote a spec script and got an agent. Her first job writing was a year stint on Days of Our Lives. After that first year, she quit – only to be told by the Days head writer, “you will NEVER work in daytime again.” Thankfully, she hasn’t. (See Filmography.)