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I would like to thank you for visiting my web site!
My interests and art range from acting to writing to theatrical sign language.
I am also in business offering Historical Research, Digital Photo Restoration and Video Documentation.

Up coming performances:

Annabelle in Alice Childress' Wedding Band
directed by Richard Scharine at the Rose Wagner Studio
April 5, 2010
in conjuction with
Edward Lewis Black Theatre Festival

I love to shoot and edit video. I often put images together for Paul Boruff's music.
Here's one of Paul's original songs, from a concert I video taped, about his dog entitled
Max's Tune

Mattie, A Woman's Journey West
Mattie Shipley Culver is buried in Yellowstone National Park.
I have written this book about her life and how I discovered her history.

Mattie Book Cover

Not unlike today, life for women in the nineteenth century served up hearty challenges on a daily basis, though the burdens of 100 plus years ago certainly were of a different flavor.  Mattie: A Woman's Journey West offers a taste of that life through the story of Martha "Mattie" Shipley Culver, whose life passage took her from her childhood in industrial new England and work in the New York textile industry to her role as the wife of a winter caretaker in Yellowstone National Park, where she died and was buried in 1889, at the age of 32.

     Mattie Culver Grave

Mattie Culver Napkin Rings

Mattie Culver's grave is located at the Nez Perce Picnic area
In Yellowstone National Park.

These napkin rings belonged to Mattie,
her daugher Theda
and most probably Mattie's mother.


Mattie Culver's daughter, Theda
pictured in the newspaper at her high school graduation.
                                                                        Theda Culver

I lecture about Mattie Culver's life and how I discovered her history through home sources..
I focus on the importance of home sources which help document women's history.

Contact me for scheduling and fees.

Thanks to all who attended the 2009 performances of
Book Day at People's Market
in Jordan Park
Paul Boruff in Concert
at the Sorenson Unity Center Performance Theatre!
Searching for David's Heart
Presented by Shalom Theatre Company of Salt Lake City
at Congregation Kol Ami!
Experience the Trees
at the Rose Room of theRose Wagner Theatre!
Lively Times with Elinore
at the Sorenson Unity Center Performance Theatre!




Nan offers these first person performances:
“Lively Times with Elinore”

       Elinore Pruitt Stewart's life embodies the spirit of the women homesteaders. Born in Oklahoma in 1876 and orphaned at age 17, Elinore was a writer her whole life.  After an early marriage and divorce she brought her young daughter Jerrine with her to Denver.  There she worked various menial jobs before she assumed the position of nurse and housekeeper for a woman who became her lifelong friend.  But her dream in life was to own her own land.  In 1909 that dream came true.  While working for Clyde Stewart in Burnt Fork, Wyoming she seized the opportunity and filed on her homestead.

From her heart and home in Burnt Fork, Wyoming Elinore Pruitt Stewart wrote of her homesteading experiences.  Not only did she fulfill her dream of homesteading, but she also furthered a career in writing, sharing her successes and her challenges with the literary world.

By combining Elinore's published works, interviews, letters and research, Nan Weber has created exciting theatre that chronicles Elinore Pruitt Stewart's homesteading experience.  Paul Boruff complements the first person story with his portrayal of Mr. Clyde Stewart.


Nan Weber with Paul Boruff in
"Lively Times with Elinore"

“A Kilbourn Road Belle”

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Nan Weber, Lena’s great granddaughter, has crafted an insightful script from day to day entries that on the surface may seem mundane.  In her performance she gives life to the great-grandmother she knows only through those entries.

The National Women’s History Project theme for 2004 Women's History Month is: "Inspiring Hope and Possibility."  My grandmother, Lena Honadel, has, through her writing, done exactly that for me.

Lena’s daily entries and jottings in the margins as she re-read her own words have shown me the care and love she held for her family–my family!  These writings express her hopes for her children’s futures.

I never could have discovered Lena’s own understanding of her life’s achievements without her words:  “Time has made me strong. Fear is no longer with me as it was in the past.”

Nan Weber is now booking theatre show dates.
Contac me for a complete promotional package.

Nan is also listed with:
Focus Talent Management
1391 South 740 East #B
Orem UT 84097
801-687-7578


 

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