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Nancy Gall-Clayton, Playwright |
I love being a playwright, a title I started claiming in earnest in 1996. Since that time, more than 40 of my plays have been on stage. I've had commissions, publications, national awards, residencies, and grant support as well. When I'm not writing plays, I teach writing to adults and enjoy life in an 111-year-old house in Louisville where I live with my husband of 26 years.
Memberships in the International Centre for Women Playwrights, the Dramatists Guild, Kentucky Writers Coalition, and a terrific local writers' group, the Cherokee Roundtable, continue to provide important support, feedback, and friendships.
I love the collaborative nature of theatre and have particularly enjoyed working on collaborative projects with Kathi E.B. Ellis, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater's Directors' Lab. I've invited her and other directors whose work I especially admire to share highlights of their bios on this page.
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Kathi E.B. Ellis, Director
Kathi is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater's Directors' Lab and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers . She has served on the board of Pleiades Theatre Company, Louisville's premiere women's theatre company, since its inception ten years ago. She also serves on the editorial board of "Southern Theatre" and is a member of the Kentucky Arts Council's Roster of teaching artists.
An independent director who directs at theatres throughout the US, Kathi E.B. Ellis recently received the Carbonell Nomination (south Florida) for Best Direction of a Musical for her production of West Side Story. She served as assistant director to Liviu Ciulei for Ghosts at Arena Stage. Her MFA is from the University of Louisville where her thesis project was adapting and directing A Doll's House for the graduate student touring company.
Kathi has directed several readings of Nancy's The Colored Door at the Train Depot, and they worked together on Voices, a project at Louisville's Center for Women & Families, where women created a theatre piece that told their stories. They also collaborated on the NEA-funded original work Alice Moments: Echoes, Ripples, and Light for Pleiades.
Nicholas Dekker
Nicholas Dekker holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Dramatic Literature from The Ohio State University, where he teaches Introduction to Theatre. In addition to his teaching, Nicholas is a playwright, and has had plays produced at Calvin College and Ohio State. While at Ohio State, he directed Sam Shepherd’s Icarus’s Mother and Nancy’s English Therapy. He is also a founding member of Wild Goose Creative, an arts company based in Columbus, Ohio.
Glory Sims Bowen, Director
New York-based Glory Sims Bowen has been the recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award in Direction from the Kennedy Center A.C.T.F. She has directed
for several Manhattan theaters including The American Globe Theater, Chashama Theater, The Bank Street Theater, HERE, RAW Theater and The Connelly Theater. Some of her favorite directorial credits include
Jack or the Submission (Ionesco Festival), Foursome (Ionesco Festival), Golem Stories (Spotlight On Festival), tryin t' touch the sun
(Spotlight on Festival), The Glass Menagerie, Pippin, Josph and his ... Coat, Uncommon Women and Others, Shallow End, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Kaleidoscope, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, The House of Bernarda Alba,
and Ten Little Indians. She recently served as assistant director of the Off-Broadway production of Fairy Tales of the Absurd.
Following Bowen's direction of Nancy Gall-Clayton's Special Delivery at the Looking Glass Theater in New York, Nancy was nomianted for Best Writer for a Spotlight On Off-Off Broadway Award.
Jane Goetzman, Director
Cincinnati-based director Jane Goetzman has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from University of Texas. She taught 11 years at Edgecliff College and chaired the Theatre Department there. In 1982, she founded TV IMAGE, INC., a not-for-profit arts organization that creates video documentaries. Through that organization, she co-produced 7 documentaries, several of which receive Ohio Arts Council funding and garnered a variety of awards. She is Secretary of the Board of New Edgecliff Theatre, where she has directed The Woolgatherer and Christmas on Mars. She has directed readings of Nancy's General Orders No. 11 and The Snowflake Theory.
James E. Wright, Jr., Director
Louisville-based director James E. Wright, Jr. has directed numerous plays for Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, Louisville's only professional African American theatre company, including Nancy's one-act Malinda. His BA in Theatre Arts is from the University of Louisville, and he is working on an MA in Humanities and Civic Leadership.
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Monologues & Shorts