Nancy Kane
2735 Slaterville Road
Brooktondale, NY 14817 Website: www.nancykane.net
Home: 607-539-3095 Vocal: mezzo soprano with belt
Cell: 914-420-2545 SAFD Advanced Actor Combatant
nancydancer2k@yahoo.com SDC
Experience:
Theatre
The Aurora Project Gatekeeper Dramatists Guild/The Kitchen, Ithaca
Great Expectations Mrs. Joe/Wemmick Endicott Performing Arts Center
Othello Lodovico/Gratiano Ithaca Shakespeare Company
A Murder Is Announced Clara Swettenham Cortland Repertory Theatre
Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web Miss Peake Cortland Repertory Theatre
Rumors Cookie Fort Hill Players
The Taming of the Shrew Curtis, Haberdasher, Widow SUNY Purchase
Musical Theatre
Pippin Berthe Papermill Theatre at Jean’s Playhouse
Man of La Mancha Housekeeper Papermill Theatre at Jean’s Playhouse
Grease Miss Lynch Cortland Repertory Theatre
Harmony on the Sea Lillian Davidson Fort Hill Players
Some Enchanted Evening Anna Actors Conservatory Theatre
The Mark Twain Musical Drama Susy (featured vocalist)
understudy for Equity lead Livy,
swing/dance captain Mark Twain Summer Theatre
Opera, Operetta and Oratorio
Princess Ida Lady Blanche Cornell Savoyards
Messiah Soloist: Mezzo Soprano Tully Arts Council
Hansel and Gretel Witch, Angel Rockland Opera
Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride Maiden Rockland Opera
Mozart’s Mass in C Soprano I Westchester Oratorio Society
Amahl and the Night Visitors Shepherd and soprano Brooklyn Chamber Opera
Training:
• BFA (Dance) – University of Colorado, Boulder. MA (Dance) – Laban Centre, London
Ph.D (Dance Education and Technology) New York University
• Irish Traditional Dance – University of Limerick, BLAS (Colin Dunne, Orflaith Ni Bhriain)
• Opera Workshops, musical theatre performance, and jazz performance – New York University
• Bel canto voice – NYU, SUNY Cortland, and Catawba College; belt training – Mary Bracken Phillips
• Acting (Meisner) – studies with William Perley
• Stage Combat –Unarmed, Rapier, Quarterstaff, and Broadsword (Richard Ryan), Sword/Shield and Knife (J. David Brimmer)
Special Skills:
Speak French, some Spanish, Italian, and Russian; can do British R.P., Cockney/Estuary and Irish dialects; teach/choreograph stage combat, ballet, tap, jazz, Irish step, Irish social, and ballroom; play flute/piccolo
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