Nancy Cooper Frank’s plays include “Daniil Kharms: A Life in One Act and Several Dozen Eggs,” 2014 Great Plains Theatre Conference; 2014 staged reading by Virago Theatre Company for the opening of The Flight Deck in Oakland, directed by L. Peter Callender. Student performance at Dickenson College in Dec. 2018. Her kitchen-sink comedy “The Plumber” premiered in the 2014 Arundel Theatre Trail in the UK, won first prize in FirstStage LA’s One-Act festival, and, as part of “Assorted Domestic Emergencies,” won “Best of Fringe” in the 2014 San Francisco Fringe Festival. "An Announcement" was a winner in the 2015 Onstage Female Playwright's Project Nancy's latest play is "The Trouble with Catherine," about the tumultuous friendship between Catherine the Great and the outspoken Princess Dashkova, first female director of a national science academy. Dramatist’s Guild; the Monday Night Group (San Francisco); literary advisor, 3Girls Theatre Company. With a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from Brown University, she still dips into Gogol when nobody is looking.