My name is Nan Parkinson McCulloch and I moved here 12 years ago from Texas (20 years) and California (10 years). I was born in Franklin, Idaho. I attended school at BYU, USU, and WSU. I studied Dance and Theater. I started lurking on the list because my nephew Benson was involved. I had never read any Mormon literture. As a result of the list I developed an interest in Mormon theater. I am an avid theatergoer and sometimes actor. I do one play a year. My past experience includes directing, music performance and choreography. I have written several childrens books, but my main interest is writing personal essays. Two of my Review/Essays were published this year in Dialogue and Irreantum. I am married with a blended family of 8 children. My husband and I live in Draper where we hang out when we aren't traveling.

I consider Nan Mormon Theater's number one fan. She is has avidly supported many a Mormon playwright like myself not only with her patronage in buying tickets, but also in writing thoughtful, insightful reviews of the LDS plays she sees.

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Upon the stage of a theater can be represented in character, evil and its consequences, good and its happy results and rewards; the weakness and the follies of man, the magnamity of virtue and the greatness of truth. The stage can be made to aid the pulpit in impressing upon the minds of a community an enlightened sense of a virtuous life, also a proper horror of the enormity of sin and a just dread of its consequences. The path of sin with its thorns and pitfalls, its gins and snares can be revealed, and how to sun it (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.243; Bookcraft, 199