Adjunct faculty, Screenwriting

Prof. Downer is a producer and writer with an impressive list of network television credits spanning three decades. As a member of the Writers Guild of America, she was a supervising producer on Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper on ABC, Fresh Prince of Belair on NBC, Sister, Sister on the WB and Rewind for

FOX. With a career that began on the hit 90s ABC TV show Growing Pains, she has written for several other network television sit-coms, as well as selling and writing pilots for Disney, ABC, FOX and NBC.