Nancy Meckler is an American theatre and film director, known for her work in the United Kingdom with Shared Experience, where she was a joint artistic director alongside Polly Teale.[1][2]
Nancy Meckler | |
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Born | United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Theater director, film director |
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Nancy Meckler was born and educated in the US, where she obtained a Masters Degree in Performance Theory and Criticism from NYU. She moved to London in 1968 where she became a founder member of Freehold Theatre Company (1968–72) which toured the UK with Antigone in a version by Peter Hulton and the company. In 1970, Antigone was sent by the British Council to represent the UK at BITEF and the Venice Biennale. The Freehold Theatre Company won the John Whiting Award for New Writing in 1970.
Meckler was the first woman to direct at the Royal National Theatre,[3] with Edward Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1981.[4]
She was the Artistic Director of Shared Experience Theatre from 1988 to 2011. Meckler has directed 5 plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe.[5]
Meckler directed the films Sister My Sister (1994)[18] and Indian Summer (aka Alive & Kicking) (1996).[19]
Meckler was the director and creator of A Streetcar Named Desire for Scottish Ballet.[citation needed]