Nancy Hersage is a Los Angeles writer working in film, theater, and print.
Nancy Hersage’s film and television projects include teleplays for NBC, CBS, and ABC, co-written with Shirley Tallman. Hersage and Tallman also sold the The War Magician (story) to Cruise/Wagner, Tom Cruise’s company. As a solo writer, Nancy wrote Lili (story) for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and Mill Mother’s Lament (script) for PBS. In addition, Hersage and Tallman have developed stories for New World Television, HBO, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Greenwald Productions, Patchett/Kaufman, Hearst Entertainment, Konigsberg Company, Spelling Entertainment, and Alexander/Enright.
Nancy is the solo author of twenty-one published stage plays and the winner of seven national awards in playwriting, including two Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference Awards and two American Alliance for Theater and Education Awards. Her plays have been produced on three continents, and her award-winning play, Beloved Friend, was produced by the Kennedy Center. Her stage adaptations for the Dramatic Publishing Company include Judith Guest’s Ordinary People and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Each adaptation was approved by the novelist.
Nancy co-wrote the book for the musical Out! with Molly Heffley and was the solo author of the lyrics and music. The play premiered in the San Francisco Bay area and was published by the Dramatic Publishing Company the same year. The team also wrote The Perfect Endgame, winner of the Peace Writing International Award, and Touch the Face of God, a finalist for the Reva Shiner Award, as well as the Charles M. Getchell New Playwriting Project.
She was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley-based Comedy Cabaret, writing and producing
original comedy and music for businesses, governments, and nonprofits throughout California, including Pixar, the Electric Power and Research Institute (EPRI), the California Library Association, and the City of Palo Alto. She has also written twenty-five satirical musicals produced in the Bay Area.
Nancy’s novel, Follow the Dotted Line, was published by Amazon as a Kindle Scout Program award-winner.
As a journalist, Nancy has written hundreds of articles and interviews for Law and Politics magazine, Monarch magazine, and the Sun Newspapers. She is co-owner and senior editor of the internet information website: ineed2know.org. She has written dozens of publications for Bay Area city governments, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Menlo Park.