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Nancy Meckler is an American born director, known for her innovative approach to theatre, specifically her work in the United Kingdom with Shared Experience, where she was a joint artistic director alongside Polly Teale.
Nancy Meckler is an award-winning theatre and film director. Having grown up in Long Island, she moved to the UK to train in classical acting at LAMDA. In 1969, she co-founded and ran Freehold, one of the main alternative theatre companies to emerge in London at the time.
Nancy Meckler was born in 1941 in New York, New York, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Sister My Sister (1994), Alive and Kicking (1996) and King Lear: Live from Shakespeare's Globe (2017).
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Nancy Meckler is a pioneer female director in the British theatre. The first woman to direct at the National Theatre, she alone amongst her gender peers has maintained a career through six decades, an astonishingly eclectic career that encompasses ground-breaking companies such as Shared Experience and the Freehold Theatre Company, Broadway ...
Nancy Meckler is a freelance theatre and film director. For Scottish Ballet Nancy created A Streetcar Named Desire with choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, nominated for an Olivier and awarded a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2013 (Scottish tour, Sadler’s Wells, Nashville Ballet & US Tour).
Apr 12, 2023 · Nancy Meckler is an award-winning theatre director. The first ever woman to direct at The National Theatre, she was also the Artistic Director of Shared Experience for 22 years.
Aug 18, 2017 · So Nancy Meckler’s production foregrounds the critical theme of homelessness, dispossession and displacement in Shakespeare’s tragedy and underscores its continuing resonance in our fragile times.
