Women In Film; Author's Guild; Toastmasters International; Screen Actor's Guild; American Federation for Radio and Television Artists; Actor's Equity Association; Burbank Chorale

Milestones -

Disney Hall Tango performance ~ San Diego TOT Workshop ~ John Anson Ford

Amphitheater performance ~ "Unidas" Fundraiser performace ~ Toastmasters International Speech winner ~ Dot Exhibit in Miami ~Directed world premier of "Is It Hot In Here or Is It Me" starring Dee Wallace Stone~ Tango for Toddlers, workshop at Watts Learning Center ~ Directed staged reading at [Inside] The Ford ~ Staged readed at the Bilingual Foundation of the

Arts ~ Learning Annex TOT workshops (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego) ~ TOT Workshops (Los Angeles,Redondo Beach, Las Vegas, Mexico City) ~ Dickens Festival ~ Co-directed "Lovestruck" ~ Filmwork ("Mi Vida Lorca", "Mitos, Ritos & Tonterias) ~ Directed/Performed "Re-encuentro" for Argentine Consulate fundraiser ~ Participated in Theater of Hope's "Theater as a Tool for Change" ~ Tango performance for Agape Church Christmas Talent Show ~

Beyond ~

NoHo Theater Best of Festival (Director) ~ L.A. Marathon (5:49)~ National and International Tango Performances (New York, El Paso, Tijuana & Mexico City)

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Born in New York and raised in Mexico, Johanna's background is highly eclectic, to say the least. After graduating from Pitzer College in California, she returned to Mexico and embarked on a career as a copywriter. This eventually led her back to New York where, after five years of "bigger, better, and improved", she was bitten by the incurable acting bug, and writing was put on hold.

Johanna and Argentine Tango crossed paths in 1995 while she was in the midst of a personal tragedy. It proved to be a turning point in her life and got her writing again, first with short stories and plays, and then personal notes which led to a journal which eventually became The Tao of Tango. She is currently shopping a Spanish-language television pilot she wrote and produced.

Besides Tango, public speaking and writing, Johanna does dots, directs theater, enjoys silence, hiking in the hills around her home in California, and has a fetish for felines - a trait her darling beloved tolerates bravely. She is also now blogging! And her most recent theatrical effort, "The Fence" (which she wrote and directed last year) is receiving a Fourth of July production in Albuquerque, NM.