Nancy Nyman

Nancy and Heather are currently staffed on the ABC half-hour comedy CALL YOUR MOTHER. Most recently, the writing duo completed the comedy feature Taffeta in collaboration with Kyra Sedgwick and Big Swing Productions. In 2017, they landed a spot in Outfest Film Festival’s prestigious Screenwriters Lab. On the TV side, the pair sold a foster-oriented project to The Disney Channel, wrote the half-hour comedy Other People’s Kids based on their own experiences as foster parents, an hour-long procedural about a kick-ass social worker called Social Work, and specs of Arrested Development and Elementary. The writing team’s Parks & Recreation sample landed in the top six scripts at Austin Film Festival and their play, Resolution, received its world premiere in Chicago in 2016, won the award for Best Script with Pride Film & Plays and was nominated for Chicago’s prestigious Jeff Award for Best New Play.

In 2018 and 2019, Nancy and Heather were hired to write for the Legacy Awards where they wrote for Lily Tomlin, Norman Lear, Lena Waithe, Elizabeth Banks, Dan Jinks, Laverne Cox, Rupert Everett, and the cast of One Day at a Time.

Nancy and Heather are proud foster/adoptive parents with three kids. As major advocates for foster children, they have been covered by The Huffington Post.