Born and raised in Montague, PEI, Nancy Beck grew up on the music of Gracie Fields. Coming from a family of directors, actors, storytellers, magicians, and singers, Nancy inevitably ended up studying drama, receiving an MA from the University of Toronto and a BFA from the University of Calgary. She has worked across the country in theatre, music, publishing, broadcasting, and film. A lyricist, playwright, producer, and director, Nancy has developed numerous productions, including Off Her Rocker, Laugh Lines, A Nightingale Sang, The Ugly Duckling and Wingin’ It!. As an actor, she has appeared in plays and musicals such as Harvest Moon Rising, White Weddings, Temporary Insanity, Jewel, The Strike at Putney Church, and Scenes from a Wake. Nancy has done over 200 performances of her one-person play, A Rowboat in the Attic, which tells the story of the historic old Island house that was in her family for almost a century.