Nan Barnett is the Executive Director of National New Play Network, the country's alliance of more than 130 theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays and an advocate for theater-makers and the theater they make. She helped create NNPN’s revolutionary Rolling World Premiere and Residency programs and guided the Network through the development and launch of its field-altering database, the New Play Exchange®, now home to more than 30,000 plays by living writers, and its recent planning process that resulted in a much-lauded renovation of its governance structure. Nan was the Coordinating Producer of the nationally acclaimed Women’s Voices Theater Festival, serves on the Artistic Councils of the O’Neill Theater Center and PlayPenn, and was inducted into the National Theatre Conference. Prior to joining NNPN full-time Nan was an award-winning actor and Managing Director of Florida Stage, the nation’s largest regional theater producing exclusively new and developing plays and musicals.