Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Clinton
309 30th Ave. N., Clinton Iowa
52732
563-243-4972
Service at 10:30
Summer services at 9:30
Rev. Ruby Nancy
Ruby
Nancy, of Rock
Island, Illinois, is the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Clinton's
part-time minister. She will conduct a monthly service, on the third
Sunday of the month, from September through May, and will be present at
the board meetings on those Sundays. She will serve as a point of
contact for media, UUA, and for local or regional associations. She
will serve as a media spokesperson and will be available for
interviews, to
represent the church in the community, including participating in
select community events. She is available to conduct services for
non-members.Visit her webiste at www.rubynancy.com
She earned a B.A. from Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts, in Macon, Georgia -- studying communications, writing, theater and religion -- and received an M.P.A. degree with an executive leadership emphasis at Drake University's College of Business and Public Administration (Des Moines, Iowa). She has completed additional graduate coursework in the Adult Learning, Performance and Development program at Drake's School of Education.
Her work with Iowa State University Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) involves teaching adults, teens and children. In March 2009, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., she was one of 8 educators who received national recognition with an EFNEP 40th Anniversary Award.
Rev. Ruby Nancy also operates Uncommon Ceremony, a wedding services business that specializes in creating inter-faith, ethnic, eclectic and contemporary weddings. A universalist, ordained in 2000, Rev. Nancy is a member of Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad-Cities and the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
Ruby Nancy published reviews on this site from December 2007 until January 2009. Previously, she reviewed hundreds of theater productions during the ten years she free-lanced for the Quad-City Times, where she also wrote page-one stories, personality profiles, columns, features and religion stories.
Her past production credits include the benefit concert series BRING IN THE HARVEST, which she hopes -- one day -- to revive. Prior to writing about theater, Ruby worked with several community theater organizations in the QC, and has theater and music credits from the Midwest, the Southeast, the East Coast and Europe. She has worked in college, university, community, nonprofit and other theaters in a wide variety of roles. Experiences as producer, director, makeup designer, set designer, actor, singer, dancer, technical director, house manager, dialect coach, costumer's assistant, understudy, playwright, script editor, artistic director, public relations manager, set painter and more have enhanced her love of this powerful and eclectic performing art.
Some of her favorite experiences include playing Fran/Molly/Betsy/April in THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (regional premiere) and Trudy in THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, designing makeup for the principals of WAITING FOR GODOT, singing in LIES AND LEGENDS: THE MUSICAL STORIES OF HARRY CHAPIN and playing the Widow Douglas/Aunt Polly in BIG RIVER -- all at Macon College Theatre. She also designed the set and assistant directed a production of BRIDGES and acted in the ensemble of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW – both of which had state tours while she attended Mercer University.
Ruby Nancy has also performed, toured and recorded with Hersong: the Quad Cities Women’s Chorus – sharing the stage with Holly Near, the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, The Quire and other musicians. In 2003, she performed Haydn’s "Mass in Time of War" with BCF’s international chorus at Salzburg Cathedral and produced THE LYSISTRATA PROJECT QUAD-CITIES. More recently she performed at THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER and POWERFUL WOMEN, which were part of the 2007-2008 MCC Entertainment Series.