Nancy Wait
@nancywait
About
Nancy Wait was born in Chicago and grew up inNew York City. She studied acting at the High School of Performing Arts andCarnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh. In 1969 she went to London to study at the RoyalAcademy of Dramatic Art and had a career in England during the 1970s, appearingin film, television and theater, under the name Nancie Wait. Whenshe had a spiritual awakening in 1976, she decided it was time to return home.
Back in New York she studied at the ArtStudents League and began a second career as a free-lance artist doing architecturalrenderings and portraits. She also painted from her imagination, and it wasafter her series of drowned people, and a second, even more powerful spiritualawakening in 1987, that she began to think of writing about her life. She wentback to school to study writing, earning a B.A. from The New School and goingon to Goddard College for an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction. However, it would bemany more years before Nancy would complete her memoir, as new “clues” keptsurfacing.
Nancy has taught creative writing and art. Shehas worked for the Center for Peace Through Culture and was one of the foundersof a group of artists called Brooklyn Visions. Since June, 2009, Nancy has beenhosting a weekly Blog Talk Radio show on Internet Radio called “Art andAscension” where she interviews writers, artists and musicians. She reads fromher own work as well as that of others. She believes that art can take us toplaces in the psyche that are inaccessible in any other way, and that we growand expand in consciousness when we can express our deepest selves through art.For it is there we dispel the shadows and bring through the light ofunderstanding to those hidden areas. Her slogan is, “Betrayal is sacred whenthe heart can encompass the whole,” because she has found through personalexperience that there is always a reason why things happen if we look deepenough. Sometimes we may have to go back to a previous life, or even a previousdeath, to discover the meaning of our lives. The seeking is what is important.The quest that beckoned Nancy, how to keep the heart open even when you’ve beenbetrayed, has allowed her to keep trusting.
Nancy discovered the answer to her own mystery.She hopes that others will be inspired by her story, and perhaps begin to lookat their own lives a bit differently. For it is not so much what happens to us,as how we deal with it. And if we can keep our hearts open, we are already halfway there.
She is currently working on a second memoircalled, My Journey Through Art to Ascension.
