Nancy Shank

Nancy is an emerging playwright whose first play, This Mortal Life Also,premiered March 2022 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts (Lincoln, NE). Member: Dramatists Guild (New York, NY), Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis, MN) and the Angels Playwrights Collective (Lincoln, NE). Shank earned a PhD in Human Sciences, an MBA from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE), and a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, PA).

Nancy is an emerging playwright whose first play, This Mortal Life Also,premiered March 2022 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts (Lincoln, NE). Member: Dramatists Guild (New York, NY), Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis, MN) and the Angels Playwrights Collective (Lincoln, NE). Shank earned a PhD in Human Sciences, an MBA from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE), and a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, PA).

Scripts

This Mortal Life Also

by Nancy Shank

3
Cast Size
7
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
faith-based,
political,
tragedy

Celebrated theologian and pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer is drawn into a web of lies and deceit as a double agent in World War II Germany. He struggles to live with integrity while fighting against National Socialism in a landscape of secrets, broken promises, fierce love, and dangerous alliances. Based on a true story.
Winner of the 2022 Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding Arts Event.

Celebrated theologian and pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer is drawn into a web of lies and deceit as a double agent in World War II Germany. He struggles to live with integrity while fighting against National Socialism in a landscape of secrets, broken promises, fierce love, and dangerous alliances. Based on a true story.
Winner of the 2022 Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding Arts Event.

I Like Hamlet

by Nancy Shank

Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Their plan to see Hamlet has been derailed by a "Buy One, Get One Free" sign in a local tattoo shop. Arriving home, the monologist demurs revealing their agreed-upon matching tattoo - a hand-drawn heart with their names in it, uncovering a secret that may derail their three-month anniversary.

Their plan to see Hamlet has been derailed by a "Buy One, Get One Free" sign in a local tattoo shop. Arriving home, the monologist demurs revealing their agreed-upon matching tattoo - a hand-drawn heart with their names in it, uncovering a secret that may derail their three-month anniversary.