Career
She is best known for playing the role of Billy Pilgrim"s wife, Valencia Merble, in George Roy Hill"s the 1972 film version of Kurt Vonnegut"s Slaughterhouse-Five. Gans also starred in the award-winning documentary Artists and Orphans: A True Drama. In October 1988, Gans directed the play The Legend of Sharon Shashanovah, presented at the 47th Street Theater in New York City.
Gans co-wrote A Chekhov Concert with Jordan Charney that was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Theater.