Biography

Nancy Hower was born on May 11, 1966, and grew up in New Jersey. She appeared on stage for the first time as a senior in high school. After high school, she studied drama at the noted Juilliard School in New York, and subsequently appeared in many regional shows as well as in the Williamstown Theater Festival. Nancy's professional theatrical debut was on Christmas Eve of 1993 where she starred in the lead role of Andrea in a production of "The Years" at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York.

She is perhaps most famous for her recurring guest role as Ensign Samantha Wildman on Star Trek: Voyager (1995), a role she continued to reprise for five years. In addition to her numerous stage, television, and film roles, Nancy has directed for the stage and film. In 2003, she directed the unreleased short film The Wizard of Id, and in 2004 she made her feature film directorial debut with _Memron (2004)_. Also written by Nancy, Memron is a mockumentary on the real life Enron scandal. The film won high acclaim and awards at many film festivals in 2004, including the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival.

Most recently, Nancy is filming her improv comedy series 10 Items or Less, which has just been purchased by TBS. She will also be singing for the upcoming film _Catch and Release (2007)_, as well as appearing in a small role in the movie.

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Writer/Director/EP Nancy Hower has directed 60+ episodes of television. Her first feature "Memron" won Audience Awards at both Slamdance and the Taos Film Festival.

Hower graduated as an actor from The Julliard School and moved to Los Angeles to play Yitzak in "Hedwig And The Angry Inch". There she landed a recurring role playing Ensign Wildman on UPN's "Star Trek," and went on to guest star in various television shows and independent films. Hower founded a band called Wench, which opened for Tenacious D and opened as a solo act for Meatloaf on his European tour.

She co-created the television series "10 Items Or Less" for Sony, which ran for three seasons on TBS. Hower served as executive producer, writer, and director for all episodes of the half-hour comedy. She then co-created, EP, wrote and directed the comedy Western, "Quickdraw," which ran for two seasons on Hulu.

Other shows Hower created and directed include the comedies "Team McPhearson" (Fox), "Let It Ride" (Comedy Central), "Jailbait" (web series/Crackle Channel) "Life on Mars" (Sony/BBC) and "Retreat!" (NBC), "The Loop" for HBO, among many others.

Hower's directing work includes the season finale of "Teachers" (TV Land), Insatiable (Netflix), and "Tacoma FD" (truTV), Ultraviolet and Black Scorpion (Disney). She recently served as EP/Directer for the pilot of Drama Club for Nickelodeon and has just finished the premier of Saturdays (Disney).

Nancy directed several episodes of So Help Me Todd for CBS. She also directed the movie Zoey 102 for Paramount Plus and Nickelodeon movies which premiered July 27.

Hower hosts her podcast My Number One, a comedic journey through the alternative healing world (on Itunes and Stitcher). Her comedic memoir, The Girl Who Drank Her Own Pee, (based on the podcast) is coming soon.

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