Nancy Meckler became Artistic Director of SHARED EXPERIENCE THEATER in 1987. Her many productions for the company include the multi-award winning Anna Karenina, which toured extensively in Britain and abroad under the auspices of the British Council; The Bacchae, True West, Heartbreak House, Abingdon Square, The Birthday Party, Sweet Sessions, Trilby and Svengali and The Danube. She also co-directed Mill on the Floss and War and Peace for Shared Experience. Nancy Meckler was a founder member of the Freehold Theatre and an Associate Director for Hampstead Theatre where productions included Dusa Stas Fish and Vi, Sufficient Carbohydrate and The Hard Shoulder (all West End transfers). Associate Director Leicester Haymarket 1984-87 where productions included The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Electra, Orestes, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Other theatre includes: Action. The Curse of the Starving Class (Royal Court), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), My Sister in this House (Monstrous Regiment). She was the first woman to direct on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?