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Nancy is currently making her Arena Stage debut in Pulitzer-Prize wining Ayad Akhtar's Junk. Off-Broadway, Nancy has performed in Red Flamboyant (World Premiere, Firebone Theatre), Completeness (Normal Ave), and An Infinite Ache (Access Theater). She has performed regionally in Marginal Loss (World Premiere, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville) and The Hard Problem (Studio Theatre). Nancy?s film credits include Going in Style, What Children Do, and Bruce!!! Her TV credits include Homeland, Younger, Shades of Blue, and The Slap. Nancy is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and the Maggie Flanigan Studio.

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Primary Stages Unveils 2024/2025 Cohorts of Writers Groups

PRIMARY STAGES has revealed the 2024/2025 cohorts of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and the Echoes Writers Group. Learn more about the groups and about the plays the have been produced.
Town Stages Announces The Recipients Of 2020 Sokoloff Arts Fellowship and Inaugural Residency Program Inductees

Last week, the Mayor ordered a shutdown of all Cultural Arts Spaces in order to protect everyone's health and safety in response to Covid-19. Today the governor ordered that 100% of non-essential workers must stay home; effectively shutting down the city. We are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. However, this world, our one singular world, has been in crisis for some time, from sociopolitical & institutionalized oppression to the growing climate emergency.
HOW WE LOVE/F*CK Has World Premiere At Cherry Lane Theatre

How We Love/F*ck, a new play from powerhouse actor/playwright Lillian Isabella, is a sex-positive theatre piece in response to the #MeToo movement where she looks to celebrate female sexuality, and how fun sex can be.
BWW Review: JUNK at Arena Stage

Arena Stage's production of 'Junk' marks the Washington, DC area premiere of the critically acclaimed play, and, happily, Arena's production is more than up to the task of living up to the show's reputation.
Photo Flash: JUNK Celebrates Opening Night at Arena Stage

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater recently opened the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk.
BWW Interview: Arena's JUNK Brings Nancy Sun Back to DC and the World of Finance

When the curtain rises for Junk on April 5, it will mark a full circle for Actress Nancy Sun
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Arena Stage's JUNK

Arena Stage presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk. Inspired by the real junk bond giants of the 1980s, Akhtar explores how the riveting, hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company paved the way to expose the rise of greed, power, race and wealth that led to reshaping the rules of Wall Street and the world.
Full Cast And Creative Team Announced For JUNK At Arena Stage

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk. Inspired by the real junk bond giants of the 1980s, Akhtar explores how the riveting, hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company paved the way to expose the rise of greed, power, race and wealth that led to reshaping the rules of Wall Street and the world. Directed by Jackie Maxwell, Junk runs April 5 - May 5, 2019 in the Fichandler Stage.
BWW Review: MARGINAL LOSS at Actors Theatre Of Louisville

Marginal Loss is a play written by Deborah Stein about an investment firm previously located in the Twin Towers trying to gather the fragments of their business in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. They find themselves working at a backup facility in New Jersey struggling with limited resources and wondering which of their coworkers made it out alive.
BWW Review: THE HARD PROBLEM at Studio Theatre

The Hard Problem is the brainchild of Czechoslovakian-born British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. Contrary to all scientific intelligence, Hilary clings to the mysterious. In the spirit of the scientific method, the audience must as: but why? As Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen notes so concisely, “the tension between knowledge and mystery pervades the play.”
Firebone Theatre Sets All-Asian Cast for RED FLAMBOYANT

FIREBONE THEATRE is pleased to announce the casting for the world premiere production of Don Nguyen's RED FLAMBOYANT, directed by Laura Savia. RED FLAMBOYANT, winner of the Aurora GAP prize, finalist for the Woodward International Playwriting Prize, finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, participant in the Ojai Playwrights Festival, finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Nominated for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, will play a limited engagement at Anderson Hall at Calvary St. George's (61 Gramercy Park North, New York, NY 10010). Performances begin Friday, April24 and continue through Saturday, May16. Opening Night is Saturday, April25 (8 p.m.).
AN INFINITE ACHE to Open 11/7 at The Gallery at Access Theater

AN IMPOSSIBLE THING PRODUCTIONS has announced the New York premiere of David Schulner's An Infinite Ache, directed by Joshua Warr. An Infinite Ache will play a limited three week engagement at The Gallery at Access Theater (380 Broadway, New York, NY 10013). Performances begin Thursday, November 7 and continue through Friday, November 22.
Horse Trade Theater Group Presents Spookfish Theatre Company's PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE PEOPLE, 9/21

Horse Trade Theater Group will present a one night only encore performance of Spookfish Theatre Company's Dream Up Festival hit, Pornography for the People, written by Ming Peiffer (Relax! Alice). The production will be directed by Kat Yen (Wabi Sabi! Not Wasabi) and will feature Vichet Chum, Ying Ying Li, Amora Lin, Josh Mendelow, Katie Peters, Nancy Sun, and Christopher J. Tan.
Horse Trade Theater Group Presents Spookfish Theatre Company's PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE PEOPLE, 9/21

Horse Trade Theater Group will present a one night only encore performance of Spookfish Theatre Company's Dream Up Festival hit, Pornography for the People, written by Ming Peiffer (Relax! Alice). The production will be directed by Kat Yen (Wabi Sabi! Not Wasabi) and will feature Vichet Chum, Ying Ying Li, Amora Lin, Josh Mendelow, Katie Peters, Nancy Sun, and Christopher J. Tan.
Theater for the New City Premieres Spookfish's PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE PEOPLE, Now thru 9/2

Spookfish Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Pornography for the People, a new political drama by Ming Peiffer about sex, surveillance and censorship, today, August 26, 2012 through Friday, September 2, 2012 - at the Theatre for the New City, (155 1st Avenue, NYC). The production is part of the Dream Up Festival: Theater For The New City's Summer Showcase. Directed by Kat Yen.
Theater for the New City Premieres Spookfish's PORNOGRAPHY FOR THE PEOPLE, 8/26-9/2

Spookfish Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Pornography for the People, a new political drama by Ming Peiffer about sex, surveillance and censorship, on Sunday, August 26, 2012 through Friday, September 2, 2012 - at the Theatre for the New City, (155 1st Avenue, NYC). The production is part of the Dream Up Festival: Theater For The New City's Summer Showcase. Directed by Kat Yen.

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