Barbara Nance

Barbara Nance is a professional screenwriter with over twenty-five years of experience working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. Among her TV series credits are Threshold (CBS), Blade (Spike), Flashforward (ABC), In Plain Sight (USA), House of Lies (Showtime), and The Lizzie Bordon Chronicles (Lifetime).

Widening out into film, she penned the widely-acclaimed movie, I Was Lorena (Lifetime/Amazon), for which she received a Canadian Screen Award in 2022 for Best Writing, TV Movie. Her second Lifetime movie, An Amish Sin, which explores sexual abuse in the Amish community, aired in October, 2022.

In addition, from 2016-2021, Barbara was a Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California where she taught screenwriting, primarily in one-hour drama. Currently a consultant for the Grow Creative Initiative at Netflix International, she gives workshops to both students and professional writers in France, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. She has also been a frequent guest lecturer for Stephens College, and she taught a TV writing seminar at her alma mater in Paris, France. She has also consulted for Amazon International, giving development workshops to professional writers in Brazil, Mexico, and India.

Prior to her screenwriting career, Barbara was a software analyst. She graduated from the American University in Paris with a B.A. in Computer Science.