Nancy Berkey Cole

Background

Cole, Nancy Berkey was born on July 9, 1936 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Gerald Kirk and Jessie McMurray (Mincher) Berkey.

Education

Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Indiana University, 1959. Master of Fine Arts in Acting, U. Iowa, 1964.

Career

Instructor English department U. Nebraska, 1964-1966. Instructor theatre department Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, lecturer/specialist music department Ithaca College, 1970-1974. Actor, director Ithaca Summer Repertory, Dartmouth College Summer Repertory, Hanover, New Hampshire, Front Saint Theatre, Memphis, Ledges Playhouse, Grand Ledge, Michigan and Lincoln, Nebraska, 1970-1975.

Assistant professor theatre Washington University, Saint Louis, 1974-1976.

Associate professor, department chairman theatre U. South Florida, Tampa, 1976-1987, professor, 1982, associate dean College Fine Arts, 1987-1988. Appointed London program Florida State University, 1991.

Producer theatre, related programs, dance concerts, College Fine Arts television Series. Director American Bar Association, Trial of the Century Series-The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Orlando, 1996, Nebraska Repertory, Lincoln, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York, Cornell Savoyards, Ithaca, Palisades Theatre, Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, Orlando Opera School tour.

Actor Tampa Players, Playmakers and Stageworks.

One-woman tour show nationally and internationally, 1990, Blackie Gallery, Liverpool, 1991, Hong Kong Fringe, 1992, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1991. Chief researcher Introduction to the Theatre (Oscar Brockett), 1962-1963. Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1958-1959.

Recipient national, regional awards American College Theatre Festival, 1979-1980, 81-82, 87-88, 89, 94, 95.

Washington University research grantee, summer 1975.

Achievements

• Nancy Berkey Cole has been listed as a notable theater educator and director, actor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Association for Theatre in Higher Education (chairman New York convention Women in Theatre 1982), Tampa Athena Society, Stage Society Directors and Choreographers, Dramatists Guild (associate), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Stephen R. Cole, May 17, 1958 (divorced). Children: Paula Murray and Leslie Jordan (twins).

Father:

Gerald Kirk Berkey

Mother:

Jessie McMurray (Mincher) Berkey

Spouse:

Stephen R. Cole

child:

Paula Murray Cole

child:

Leslie Jordan Cole