NANCY KEYSTONE

Nancy Keystone is an inter-disciplinary artist working in theatre, film, visual art, and education. She is the founding Artistic Director of the collaborative ensemble, Critical Mass Performance Group in Los Angeles... She is the recipient of Theatre Communications Group's Alan Schneider Director Award, and was named one of the "Faces to Watch " by the Los Angeles Times. Other grants and fellowships: Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow at USC, MacDowell Colony, NEA, APAP/Doris Duke Ensembles Collaborations grant, TCG/Pew Charitable Trusts' National Theatre Artists Residency Program, Center for Cultural Innovation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Drama League of New York, California Community Foundation, Flintridge Foundation, among others. She earned an MFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon, and a BA in Theatre Arts from UCLA, is on the visiting faculty at UCLA, and a frequent university guest lecturer, and an instructor in arts-in-education programs.