Nancy Hoffmann Gerber - Executive Director of The School of Creative Arts
Nancy loves teaching children and adults. Her students range in age from 8-68.
Her experience in the performing arts spans over 40 years. Her students have been accepted at Tisch School of Creative Arts (NYU), Marymount Manhattan College, Milliken University (the alma mater of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jodi Benson and Sierra Boggess), Chapman University in California, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Yale University and The Walnut Hill High School. Many of her students are working singers/actors in the New England area.
She created the role of “Nancy Nervosamente” in the world premiere of Suite Dreams! with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Spano. Solo performances include Boston Civic Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, New England Conservatory Orchestra, Lexington Symphony, Wellesley Symphony, Georgetown (DC) Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony where she premiered another new work entitled What If? Her most recent appearance with the Boston Symphony was as narrator for Gregory Smith’s Orchestra Games. She has enjoyed the privilege of working with Maestro Max Hobart many times.
Her television appearances include ABC’s One Life To Live and Ryan’s Hope. On stage she portrayed Monica in I Love My Wife at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park with Scott Bakula, and toured in the title role of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Regional credits include the roles of Desiree in A Little Night Music, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Velma in Chicago, Petra in A Little Night Music and Polly in The Boyfriend. In New York, Nancy has performed Off-Broadway in cabaret and in the premiere of A Family By Any Other Name written by her husband, Stephen Gerber, and in The Best of Broadway at Caroline’s with Lee Roy Reams, Maureen Brennan and Jim Walton. She has directed and choreographed for cabaret and Cable TV in New York, and was choreographer for Cruise International. She has appeared in numerous commercials and has done radio voice over commercials. Locally, she has directed and choreographed the Acts From The Heart production of the musical Suddenly On Christmas Eve, (written by her husband, Stephen Gerber), in which she also created the role of Johanna Andersen. She was a member of the Boston cast of Forbidden Broadway and appeared at the Charles Playhouse as Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys and Dinettes and was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue Some Enchanted Evening at the Firehouse Theater in Newburyport.
Nancy made her acting debut at the age of four in her native Savannah, Georgia as the “I Love Milk” spokeschild on Romper Room. Since graduating from Romper Room, Nancy received her B.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and has studied with many renowned teachers including Uta Hagen, Gene Lasko, Word Baker, Oscar Kosarin and Lehman Engel, Worth Gardner, and David Rubens.
Along with her professional performing career, Nancy has directed numerous plays around the New England area and is much in demand as a teacher of singing and acting. She is a member of the Actor’s Equity association.
|