J.J. Gesher is the pen name for co-authors Joyce Gittlin and Janet B. Fattal. Together, Janet and Joyce have won several screenwriting awards, including the Geller Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the Austin Film Festival. Their first screenwriting collaboration was a Lifetime Television feature.
Joyce Gittlin has written and directed such television shows as Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond and has written more than ten feature films for Disney, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox. She has an MFA from NYU.
Janet B. Fattal has a master’s in comparative literature from UCLA and has taught literature and writing at the college level. She leads many Los Angeles–area book groups, including for the Skirball Cultural Center, Hadassah, and Brandeis.
Joyce and Janet both live in Los Angeles. You can learn more at www.jjgesher.com.