Nancy Jack
njack2@du.edu

Nancy Jack is currently a professional television writer living in Los Angeles, California. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, where she edited the Law Review. As much as she enjoyed the ivory-tower theoretical analysis of the law, she strongly believed that it had little to do with real-life application. She confirmed this belief while practicing civil litigation with a private Tampa law firm immediately after law school. After a year, Nancy headed west to Los Angeles to figure out what she was all about. She did some acting (none of it good) and some writing (so much to learn), but did discover she was meant to be a writer. Nancy earned a M.F.A in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University and won a place in the Warner Brothers TV Drama Writing Workshop, which led to her first professional TV writing job as a staff writer on the short-lived WB/Bruckheimer drama, Just Legal. She was then hired on to another Bruckheimer drama, Without A Trace. In 2006 she moved on to a Touchstone/ABC drama, What About Brian, which was cancelled in May 2007. Nancy is currently writing (always writing) a spec pilot and exploring writing and teaching opportunities both inside and outside the television business.

Courses Taught

Writing the Screenplay