John Clancy is an OBIE award winning director and Executive Artistic Director of Clancy Productions, Inc. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company, a leading Off-Off Broadway theatre company, and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival, North America’s largest theater and performance festival. His plays have won The American Shorts Contest and The San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and have been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. Directing credits include Americana Absurdum, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2000, Cincinnati, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe 2004, Horse Country, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002, Scotsman Best of the Firsts 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe 2004 and Fatboy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2004. His most recent directorial endeavor screwmachine/ eyecandy: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob, garnered him his 5th Fringe First in 4 years.

John serves on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., the city’s preeminent advocacy and resource center for downtown theater, and the Advisory Board of the 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester, England. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and his writing has been published in Off, Edge, Village Voice, The Sunday Herald and The New York Times. He was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for 'creativity, enterprise and vision'. In 2002 he was awarded a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He lives on the Lower East Side with his wife, Nancy Walsh.

Nancy Walsh is the president of Clancy Productions. She is a founding member of The Present Company, producing organization of The New York International Fringe Festival. She has performed in over 14 productions with The Present Company, including Secret Agent Man and Paper Man, both written by John Clancy, the egg game by Sheila Head, Texas Radio by C.J.Hopkins and Brian Parks’ Americana Absurdum, winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First 2000 and nominated for the Stage Award Best Acting Ensemble. Nancy performed Cincinnati at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, garnering a 2002 Fringe First. She was also awarded the Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe Award and nominated for The Stage Best Actress award. Clancy Productions toured Australia with Arts Projects Australia where she performed Cincinnati at The Adelaide Fringe Festival (winning the 2004 Adelaide Best of Fringe) and The Belvoir Street Theater in Sydney. In 2004, Clancy Productions returned to Edinburgh with Fatboy written and directed by John Clancy, in which she played Fudgie -- reprising the role in 2006 at the Ohio Theater. She followed that up with reprising her roles in NYC in screwmachine/eyecandy, and Americana Absurdum at PS 122.

Nancy has worked with Atlantic 453, Blue Heron Arts Center, and with Six Figures Theatre Company in Clowning the Bard and Bible directed by Linda Ames Key. She co-starred in an animated feature called the The Ruth Truth by Sheila Head for Oxygen Media and starred in the short indie film Another Bed by Brian Dykstra, directed by Margarett Dykstra and Ross Minichiello. Credits also include One Life to Live and commercial work for ESPN, Lifetime, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Her favorite work happens during the 24 Hour Play Project, with Tina Fallon and Kurt Gardner and Lindsey Bowen. Nancy lives on the Lower East Side with her OBIE Award-winning husband John Clancy.