Johanna Lack: Johanna Lack has taught scriptwriting at JDS Creative Academy since its inception 11 years ago. She is the head writer for JDSCA’s Spirit of Innovation: Arts Across America and is an award-winning television producer/writer who worked on shows for HGTV, DIY, CBS, ABC, and the  Discovery Channel. She has always loved scriptwriting, whether writing for class films while earning her B.S. in Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University, taking extension classes in screenplay writing at UCLA, writing high-rated shows like HGTV’s House Hunters and Designed to Sell, and creating actors’ scenes for JDS Studio. When she started as an assistant to Hollywood producers, she was asked to read and evaluate scripts and quickly learned what made a screenplay great - and what sent it to the reject pile.  She uses that knowledge in her own writing and teaching.