Nan has been awarded Best Actress "Tennie" Awards by "The Tennessean" for her work in "The Seagull," "Cyrano," "The Little Foxes," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Crimes of the Heart," and "The Storybuilders."
Nan has had featured roles with Tennessee Opera Theater and has been a guest soloist on numerous occasions with the Nashville Symphony.  She has performed the roles of Queen Elizabeth in RICHARD III and Mistress Quickly in MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.    

She co-wrote with Denice Hicks and Claire Syler a new work entitled SHAKESPEARE'S CASE, a play in which William Shakespeare goes on trial to defend his modern relevance. The play had its premiere in 2009 at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.     

She has performed her one-woman show, "The Diary of Opal Whiteley," at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and at colleges and universities in the Southeast.   Her longest-running role to date is that of Queenie Delphine in The Glory Bugles (www.glorybugles.com), which she co-founded with her husband Wayne and Bonnie Keen.   She wrote, hosted, and produced an educational TV series on the performing arts entitled "Front Row Center" for Nashville Public TV Station WDCN-TV Channel 8 which was aired on PBS stations nationwide and which won the Southern Education Communication's Best Series Award in 1997.  She is a two-time Dove Award winning songwriter and has written and recorded an album of songs for children entitled "Small Wonder,"  

She is the author of three children's books, "Little Rose of Sharon," "Twice Yours," and "What Color is Love.”    She also was a 1999 recipient of the Avalon Award for Creative Excellence given by Lipscomb University.   She is a member of the Prism Art League and studies painting with Melanie Jackson.    Nan is proudest of her role as wife to Wayne and Mother to Erin and Lena.