Nancy Shank

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...
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).

Plays

  • This Mortal Life Also by Nancy Shank
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Germany World War II + 5 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, faith-based, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Germany World War II, pacifism, church, nazi germany, fascism, rise of fascism in 20th century
    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
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: monologue, tattoos + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: monologue, tattoos, dating, break up
    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.

Recommended by Nancy Shank

  • The Refugees by Brent Askari
    14 Apr. 2023
    “ I attended a reading of this play and was enchanted from the first moment by its subtle satire and poignancy. The play forces the audience to re-examine conceptions and misconceptions about immigrants and the countries who take them in. I would very much like to see a production of this play. ”