Nancy Hendrickson
Nancy Hendrickson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376796) started her
career as an actress, graduating with a BFA in drama from Carnegie-Mellon
University and going on to appear in daytime dramas, off-off Broadway,
commercials, regional theater and to star in the nationally released feature film
Mother's Day. She created the role of Nonnie for the premier production of Starters,
a play by Obie -inner Jack Gelber that co-starred Alan Rosenberg and she acted
under the direction of Norman Rene and John Pasquin. Nancy is a member of SAG,
AFTRA and AEA.
In 1991 her writing career began when she was hired to pen fifty promotional spots
for The Disney Channel. She has since been hired to write screenplays, most
recently by producer Randy Greenberg (former VP at Universal and MGM) to adapt
"Miracle at Springfield Hospital." Her spec screenplays have won The Austin Film
Festival and Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting competitions. She has also been a
finalist in the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Sundance Writers, the
Women in Film and Video competition and AFI's Directing Workshop for Women as
well as a semi-finalist (top 100 out of 4000) in the Academy's Don and Gee Nicholl
Fellowhip, the Fade In competition and the Chesterfield Film Company's Writers
Film Project.
Hendrickson's directing credits include plays, staged readings and short films. In
2006 she directed the premier of Solicitation, a full length stage play at the New
York Fringe Festival. Her first short film, The Healing, starring Sam Gould, won a
Gaia Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Moondance Film Festival and was
nominated for Best in Category at Damah International Film Festival. Tel Aviv Spirit
Festival requested permission to screen it subtitled in Hebrew. Another film,
Weekend Encounter, is in post-production and a third, Shadows and Light
(www.shadowsandlightfilm.com) was just completed.
For the past fifteen years, Nancy has been a frequent contributor to Creative
Screenwriting magazine and a sometime contributor to MovieMaker magazine. She
currently teaches screenwriting and directing at full time at The Los Angeles Film
School and writes a bi-monthly column for The Scriptwriters Network newsletter
which can be accessed at www.scriptwritersnetwork.org.
