Nancy Ellen Shore

Writer-performer Nancy Ellen Shore can be seen as Dr. Watson in Emmy-nominated director Paul Starkman's feature film Wheels (2018), which won Best Narrative Feature at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival. Other recent film work: Matty's Aunt in Romina Schwedler's The Visit, a multi-award-winning short costarring Academy Award-nominee June Squibb. Recent theater work: Mrs. Higgins in New Bedford Festival Theatre's My Fair Lady starring Peter Gregus (Broadway's Jersey Boys) at the Zeiterion Theatre. Recent TV: Fourth season as a recurring State Department Advisor (core ensemble) on Madam Secretary (CBS); Recurring Inmate (core ensemble), Orange Is the New Black, Seasons 1-5 (Netflix). Nancy has been featured since 2012 in many other TV shows and movies, playing everything from a homeless woman to a wealthy Theater Patron/Tony Voter friend of Eileen Rand, Anjelica Huston's character, on Smash. A former theater critic/feature writer for Backstage, Stages, and The Providence Journal, she has penned juvenile biographies (Amelia Earhart, Anne Hutchinson), written for Time-Life Books, and done editorial work at Condé Nast, The New York Review of Books, and many other NYC newspapers, magazines, and publishing companies. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Dramatists Guild, and New York Women in Film and TV.