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Nancy Meckler

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Nancy Meckler is a director, known for her work in the United Kingdom with Shared Experience, where she was a joint artistic director alongside Polly Teale.[1]

Meckler has directed a production of I.D..[2] She was a member of London-based collective the Freehold Theatre Company (1969–73), where she eventually became director. The group employed devising methodology to create work, and were the first company to receive the John Whiting Award for "new and distinctive development in dramatic writing', traditionally given to playwrights.[3]

References

  1. ^ Company, Shared Experience website, Retrieved November 15, 2010
  2. ^ Sher, Antony, I.D. London: Nick Hern Books, 2003, p. 12. ISBN 978-1-85459-754-0
  3. ^ Theodore Shank, "Collective Creation", in Rebecca Schneider and Gabrielle Cody (eds), Re:direction (London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 221-35), p. 229.