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NANCY CURRAN WILLIS
(781) 270-0869; imadirektor@rcn.com
Current Address & Contact: Burlington, MA 01803

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING EXPERIENCE:

Boston Theatre Works
Managing Director 2003-2005

	Conspiracy of Memory, World Premiere
	Coyote on a Fence, Boston Premiere
	* The Laramie Project Boston Premiere
	Man on Dog for New Play Festival
	* Not About Nightingales, Assistant Director (New England Premiere)
	Where the Green Mango Falls (Staged Reading)
	Claire Danes Poster for Boston Theater Marathon
	Bent for Sundays at Seven Series

SpeakEasy Stage & Boston Theatre Works

** Take Me Out, Assistant Director

Gloucester Stage Company
Managing Director 2001-2003

	Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill
	The Little Match Girl
	The Laramie Project
	3 Weeks After Paradise for Boston Theatre Marathon * Elliot Norton Award for Best Production by a Fringe Company ** IRNE Award Best Production

Leatherstocking Theatre Company, NY

	Crimes of the Heart
	On Golden Pond

Colonial Radio Theater
Professional Radio Plays

	Halloween Tree
	Something Wicked this Way Comes
	Dandelion Wine
	The Rivals

Second Stage Theater Company
Founding Artistic Director

	Proposals, NE Premiere, at New Repertory Theatre
	Mockba: A Play About Moscow (NETC Gassner Award Winner 1999)
	Peanuts for Boston Theatre Marathon

New Repertory Theatre

Beast on the Moon, Assistant Director & Dramaturg
(Boston premiere)

REGIONAL DIRECTING EXPERIENCE:

Newton South High School

	Urinetown the Musical
	Metamorphoses
	The Laramie Project

Quannapowitt Players, Inc.

	* Three Days of Rain
	* Simpatico
	* Secret Affairs of Mildren Wilde
	For Whom the Southen Belle Tolls
	** A Stye of the Eye
	* Postmortem
	* Remembrance
	** Woman In Mind
	* Night Watch
	** The Boys Next Door

Burlington Players, Inc.

	* Widow’s Blind Date
	* Crossing Delancey
	* Deathtrap
	Agnes of God

* EMACT Award Excellence in Direction
** EMACT Festival Best Production

Arlington Friends of the Drama

	*** West Side Story
	* A Few Good Men
	** A Piece of My Heart
	* The Foreigner

Concord Players

	* Jake’s Women
	* Deathtrap

Vokes Players

	As Bees In Honey Drown
	Bat Boy the Musical
	****Lips Together, Teeth Apart

Miscellaneous

	TomFoolery for Acme Theatre
	*Kindertransport for Winchester Players
	Speed the Plow for Hovey Players
	* Equus for The Footlight Club

*** EMACT Award Best Production
**** Independent Reviews of New England Best Director Nominee

Awards and Honors:

2005 IRNE Award Best Production for “Take Me Out” – Assistant Director

2002 Elliott Norton Winner Best Production by Fringe Company for “The Laramie Project” – Director

2001 Larry Stark’s Theater Mirror “Year’s Best” List – Director for “As Bees In Honey Drown” Vokes Theater

2001 Larry Stark’s Theater Mirror “Year’s Best” List–Production for “The Laramie Project” Boston Theatre Works

2000 Elliott Norton Winner Best Production by Fringe Company for “Not About Nightengales” – Asst. Director

1999 Nominee for Best Director category by Larry Stark of “The Theatermirror” for “Equus”

1998 “Year’s Best” Award in Worcester Magazine for “A Few Good Men”

1997 Nominee for “Independent Reviewers of New England” as Best Director for “Lips Together, Teeth Apart”

1997 “Ten Best List” for “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” by Larry Stark of “The Theatermirror”

Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters (EMACT) Drama Festival

	2006 EMACT DASH Award Winner Best Musical Production “West Side Story” for Arlington Friends of the Drama
	1999 Special Adjudicator’s Award for Staging Concept as a Unique Production Element for “Equus”; Nominated for “Best Director”
	1997 Winner of “Best Production” for “A Stye of the Eye”; Nominated for “Best Director”
	1995 Winner of “Best Production” Award for “A Piece of My Heart”; Nominated for “Best Director”
	1993 Finalist Production for “Woman In Mind”; Winner of “Best Director” Award

New England Theater Conference (NETC) Drama Festival

	1991 Winner of “Best Production” Award for “The Boys Next Door”; Nominated for “Best Director”
	1995 Presenter Monologues EMACT Workshop Series
	1998 Moderator 120 Years of Community Theater – NETC Convention, Hartford, Ct

Professional Affiliations:

	Boston Theatre Works (BTW)
	Gloucester Stage Company (GSC) Professional Theater operating under Professional Summer Theater NEAT (SPT) AEA Contract Operating under NEAT (SPT) AEA Contract Managing Director – 2003-2005 Managing Director 2001 - 2003 Board Member 2000-2005 Company Member 2000 to 2006
	NEAT (New England Area Theater) Producers Bargaining Unit Negotiation team member 2001-2005
	New England Theater Conference (NETC) Board Member 1996/1999 Member at Large
	Eastern Mass Association of Community Theaters (EMACT) President 1998/1999, 1999/2000 Vice President – 1997/98 Secretary – 1995 Member at Large – 1994

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