Nancy and Doug Anderson

Nancy was invited by long time friend Douglas Anderson, who restored – and is now the director of – the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, Vermont, to perform her one-woman show at the grand re-opening of the historic theatre.

Anderson, who grew up in Nancy’s home town of Kettering, was a teen actor/writer/producer in need of an actor for his fledgling theatre company. After seeing Nancy perform in a play earlier, he asked her to fill the role…of a giant.  It was Nancy’s first real “gig” as an actor—she was twelve—in a show that toured in the Dayton, Ohio area.

“The joke was, ‘Here comes the giant, oh no, oh no,’ loud footsteps, and here entered a very tiny person. The show was all about preconceptions,” Anderson said. “She was just delightful, and we fell in love with her.”

Now, after many years and more than five million dollar in renovations, Anderson called on his old friend once again for the theatre’s re-opening. The event was a smash and Middlebury will never be the same.