Meet Nancy Sherrard!

MEET THE CAST:
Nancy Sherrard makes her KDT debut as Mag Folan in THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, opening this Friday, November 9 at Kitchen Dog Theater.

NANCY

Full Given Name

Nancy Carroll Sherrard

Hometown

Dallas, TX

Zodiac Sign

Scorpio

Current Show You Have Been Recommending to Friends

1776 at Lyric Stage

Favorite Play

You Can't Take It With You

Advice You Wish You Had Been Given When You Were Younger

Not everyone in this world is going to love you, and that's ok.

Song You Never Grow Tired of Hearing - Why?

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Little Wing" because it reminds me of happy, carefree times, and, Stevie.

Last Book You Read

Last book was a re-read; “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

Last Good Movie You Saw

I'm behind on movies but I loved "My Week With Marilyn"

Favorite Comfort Meal

Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup

Superstitions?

I feel the need to round up to even numbers whenever I can. Worst Flubbed Line/Missed Cue/Onstage Mishap At Gaslight dinner theater in OKC when I was a college student, it had the kind of dinner theater stage that rolls out to the center, leaving an empty well backstage.  I missed my entrance cue and actors onstage and audience were completely silent as they heard my pounding feet  run from the dressing room, down and across the well where the stage used to be and around to make my out of breath entrance stage left.  To sing.

What Did You Want To Be When You Were Little?

An actress, according to my mother. I told her this at age four.

What Was Life Like For You in 1989?

It was a year of great turmoil and transition for me. A Play That Hasn’t Been Done on a Dallas Stage But Should Be Master Class by Terrence McNally

When Have You Been the Most Scared In Your Life?

At 12, I was babysitting for a very glamourous single lady in our neighborhood while she went out on a date. Evidently she was in the middle of a divorce fight with her husband. The kids were asleep, and her ex came knocking on the front door and when I wouldn’t open it, came pounding on the sliding glass door in the back, screaming and cussing. I got on the phone to my best friend, who got in a fight with her mother whether I should call the police or not. Fortunately, he left without incident, but I never babysat for her again.

Bucket List Roles

Medea; Margaret in Richard III; Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals; and yes, Maria Callas in Master Class to name a few.

First Show to See at Kitchen Dog

Their first production, MUD, in 1991  KDT Company (and founding) members Sally Vahle, Joe Nemmers, and John Morgan in MUD, 1991.   Worst Costume Ever The one I provided for myself, in that famous production of Fiddler on the Roof at Gaslight Dinner Theatre.

Performer You Would Drop Everything to Go See

Christopher Walken or Frances McDormand Christopher Walken currently stars in Martin McDonagh's latest movie Seven Psychopaths

One Play You Hope You Never See Again

No Sex, Please, We're British

What Holds Dallas Back From Theatrical Greatness?

Greatness already abounds in Dallas theater, in my opinion. The issue I think is one of perception and recognition on a national level. What keeps Dallas as being viewed as provincial, in terms of “name” actors appearing, or as an actor’s destination like Chicago, and how to fix that, I leave to greater minds than mine to figure out.

If You Had to Run a Show for 10 Years, What Would it Be?

10 years? Maybe not, but I could have played Mattie Fae Aiken in August: Osage County for at least 5. Nancy with the cast of August: Osage County at WaterTower Theatre in April 2012

Dream Profession if You Didn’t Become an Artist?

Lawyer

First Show to Be in at Kitchen Dog

This one, and very proud to be a part of it, too.

Best Piece of Theater You’ve Ever Seen

Les Miserables with the original cast in London in the late '80's.

Want to catch Nancy's KDT debut?

Buy tickets for THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE here.