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Nancy Gall-Clayton, Playwright |
Nancy Gall-Clayton, a Hoosier, lives within spitting distance of Louisville, Kentucky.
Nancy has been a Visiting Artist at Ohio State University and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference.
Her plays have won the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays (General Orders No. 11) , the Eileen Heckart Drama Competition (Felicity's Family Tree, which is published in Spalding University's Louisville Review), the Heritage Festival (The Colored Door at the Train Depot), McKinney Repertory Theatre Annual New Play Competition (The Snowflake Theory), and many other competitions. She has been a Finalist three times for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Her plays have been on stages in 21 states and in Australia and Canada. Her collection Women on the 15th State includes 11 plays about historic Kentucky women. Other work ranges from historical drama to futuristic comedy. Much of her work includes social justice and feminist issues, and many of her plays have roles for complex older women.
Just Taking Up Space is included in World Premieres from Horse Cave Theatre (Motes Books), and shorter works are published by Dramatic, Meriwether, Smith & Kraus, and others.
A member of Southeastern Theatre Conference, she has chaired the High School New Play Contest and presented a number of workshops for SETC through the years. She teaches her "Crash Course in Playwriting" at the Kentucky Governor's Scholars each summer. She also has lectured for Spalding University's MFA in Creative Writing Program.
Nancy and independent theatre director Kathi E.B. Ellis collaborate annually to create a showcase of women artists of all genres and ages in celebration of SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now).
She loves giving playwriting workshops and can customize the length and subject matter to meet your needs.
Nancy has degrees in education, counseling, and law.
Nancy is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and a Louisville-based multi-genre group known as the Cherokee Roundtable.
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