Staff
Nancy Carlin
Lead Teaching Artist Trainer/Director
Nancy Carlin directed the 2017 world premiere and 2018 follow-up production of I Died in Auschwitz. She has performed and directed extensively in regional theaters, including the American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Aurora Theatre, Shotgun Players, Jewel Theatre, Marin Theatre, Center Rep, Cal Shakes, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A former company member of A.C.T. and associate artist with California Shakespeare Theater, Carlin is also a writer, producer, dialect coach, and acting teacher. A theater arts lecturer with San Jose State University and UC Berkeley, she holds a BA in comparative literature from Brown University and an MFA in acting from the A.C.T. She is the recipient of numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, DramaLogue, and Theatre Bay Area awards for Best Principal Performance, Best Supporting Performance, and Best Director and is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and SDC.