Betsy Nagler
Betsy is an award-winning Brooklyn-based writer and director. Since receiving her MFA from NYU, she has criss-crossed the country producing and directing documentaries (FLAT DADDY, about the impact of the war in Iraq on four military families from around the U.S., premiered at DOC NYC in 2011), produced and directed for hire on projects ranging from pieces for the Working Families Party and the Code Liberation Foundation, to those animal videos for The Dodo, to video letters for Nickelodeonʼs BLUE'S CLUES. Her editing credits include voter education videos in five languages and fund- and awareness-raising work for Family Equality, Brick Education, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Swing Left. Her most recent doc, THE HALLOWEEN HOUSE (2021), about how one man's (Tony Award-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire) obsession with scariness brings together his diverse neighborhood, will play at Lincoln Center's Diversity and Inclusion Film Festival in November 2024. Her episodic experience comes from 25+ years miking everyone from Carrie Bradshaw to Elmo as a location sound person on shows that include ELEMENTARY, THE SOPRANOS, THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL, and POSE. As a screenwriter, she writes thrillers and comedies with a dark side centered around women who won't take no for an answer. Her one-hour thriller pilot PRICELESS was selected in 2023 for the Stowe Narrative Lab & the Writers Lab NYC, and in 2024 for the Nostos Screenwriting retreats and The Women’s List. Her comedy-thriller screenplay SHE DONE IT was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship and was selected for the 2024 Cinestory Feature Retreat.
