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NANCY KAWALEK

 

Nancy Kawalek is a New York theatre-trained actress whose credits include Strider on Broadway, as well as several leading roles Off Broadway, including a one-woman show, Alice Without, which she also co-authored. Performing in regional theatre, Nancy has been privileged to work with directors such as Frank Galati, JoAnne Akalaitis and Dennis Zacek. At the Ensemble Theatre Company, she played Doris in The Loman Family Picnic. A graduate of Northwestern University with degrees in Theatre and Performance Studies, Nancy honed her improvisational skills with Chicago’s distinguished Second City . She has acted in film, television and numerous commercials, and has been heard in the acclaimed Selected Shorts series on National Public Radio. Nancy is also a regular performer with Speaking of Stories and Santa Barbara Theatre of the Air. Among her credits as a director is the documentary film, Lost and Found. Nancy is a Studio Professor in Film and Media Studies and Media Arts and Technology at UCSB, where she teaches acting, directing and the adaptation of literature for the stage. She is also the founder/director of the Professional Artists Lab (www.proartslab.ucsb.edu) – a dynamic artistic laboratory in which new works in film, theatre, television, radio and multi-media performance are created and developed – and the STAGE Project (www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage), a collaboration between the Lab and the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) is comprised of both an international script competition that awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology, and a developmental lab where professional artists create multi-media theatre pieces in which science and technology play prominent roles in content and/or form.

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