Nancy Beverly(I)
- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
Nancy Beverly is a writer whose current projects include The Cleaning Crew (Semi-Finals of the Creative Screenwriting contest and the top 3% of the Orchard Project Development Program) as well as The View from Above, both TV pilots.
She is also the writer / producer of the 37-minute film Shelby's Vacation, a lesbian dramedy. In 2019 it won the Audience Choice Award at Perth's Dyke Drama Film Festival, Best Acting Duo and Best Romance Short at the Olympus Film Festival in L.A., and the best GLBT film at the Erie International Film Festival. It was also an official selection at Chicago's Reeling Festival, Outshine in Ft. Lauderdale, the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Indianapolis Circle City Film Festival and Indy's LGBT Film Festival, L.A.'s Best Shorts Competition, where it won an Award of Merit, and The Lady Filmmakers Festival, where it gleaned the Best LGBTQ Film award. The feature version of the Shelby script made the semi-finals of Chicago's Pride Films and Plays contest.
She also co-wrote and co-produced The Calamities of Jane, an 11-part 90 minute web series about a woman of a certain age who is dealing with ageism and sexism in Hollywood (imagine that?!). Jane made it into a variety of festivals and won "Best Web Series" at the L.A. Independent Film Festival.
Nancy has worked in TV for many years, including stints on such hit shows as Desperate Housewives and Ghost Whisperer.
The playwrights' group Fierce Backbone has been her theatre home since 2009, where she's developed several plays including Community (it made the finals - top 12 - of the American Association of Community Theatres play contest). She's had plays produced at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Rainbow Festival at Asbury Park, and Bloomington's Blizzard of Short Plays. Her favorite recent theatrical event was the workshop production of her play Handcrafted Healing by the Athena Project in Denver.
Nancy's professional life began at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she worked as the Assistant Literary Manager and read thousands of scripts, acted as dramaturg on a number of Humana Festival plays - and had several of her own plays produced in the ATL short-play showcases.
She is also the writer / producer of the 37-minute film Shelby's Vacation, a lesbian dramedy. In 2019 it won the Audience Choice Award at Perth's Dyke Drama Film Festival, Best Acting Duo and Best Romance Short at the Olympus Film Festival in L.A., and the best GLBT film at the Erie International Film Festival. It was also an official selection at Chicago's Reeling Festival, Outshine in Ft. Lauderdale, the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Indianapolis Circle City Film Festival and Indy's LGBT Film Festival, L.A.'s Best Shorts Competition, where it won an Award of Merit, and The Lady Filmmakers Festival, where it gleaned the Best LGBTQ Film award. The feature version of the Shelby script made the semi-finals of Chicago's Pride Films and Plays contest.
She also co-wrote and co-produced The Calamities of Jane, an 11-part 90 minute web series about a woman of a certain age who is dealing with ageism and sexism in Hollywood (imagine that?!). Jane made it into a variety of festivals and won "Best Web Series" at the L.A. Independent Film Festival.
Nancy has worked in TV for many years, including stints on such hit shows as Desperate Housewives and Ghost Whisperer.
The playwrights' group Fierce Backbone has been her theatre home since 2009, where she's developed several plays including Community (it made the finals - top 12 - of the American Association of Community Theatres play contest). She's had plays produced at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Rainbow Festival at Asbury Park, and Bloomington's Blizzard of Short Plays. Her favorite recent theatrical event was the workshop production of her play Handcrafted Healing by the Athena Project in Denver.
Nancy's professional life began at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she worked as the Assistant Literary Manager and read thousands of scripts, acted as dramaturg on a number of Humana Festival plays - and had several of her own plays produced in the ATL short-play showcases.