I am on cloud nine because I just got to interview another one of my Entertainment Idols, Actress Nancy McKeon whom I have enjoyed watching on such hit TV shows as The Facts of Life and The Division, as well as CBS too-short-lived series, Style & Substance (Co-starring Jean Smart). 

Now, Nancy is making her Off-Broadway debut in the new play Pen Pals  by Michael Griffo. Nancy is heading back into the show for its final week (February 5-9)!

I had the best time speaking with her because it felt like I was talking to an old friend!

In this interview, Nancy answered my call to share:

• What made now the right time in her career to make her Off-Broadway debut
• How she remains focused when there are distractions during the show
• If she were to write a Pen Pal letter to her younger self, what would she would say
• If there's ever been a time in her life when the world didn't live up to hear dreams
• So much more

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Nancy returns to Pen Pals for the show's final week, February 5-9, with a special performance on Monday, February 3! Click here for tickets!

Pen Pals is the extraordinary story of two friends that unfolds over decades. With a rotating cast of renowned actors, no two performances will ever be the same. 

Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world. 

More on Nancy McKeon:

An actress, director, and producer best known for playing the role of Jo Polniaczek on the beloved long-running 1980s sitcom, The Facts of Life. She starred in and produced the sitcom Can’t Hurry Love and starred with Jean Smart in the sitcom Style & Substance. She portrayed Inspector Jinny Exstead on the Lifetime police drama The Division from 2001 to 2004. She also directed two episodes. 

Nancy starred in numerous made-for-TV movies in the 1980s and 1990s, some including A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story, in which she portrayed the title role of Tracey Thurman, and Firefighter portraying the first female firefighter in Los Angeles County. Strange Voices, she portrayed a woman with schizophrenia. Love, Honor and Obey; The Last Mafia Marriage, mini series with Eric Roberts.

She produced many of these movies through her film company, Forest Hills Entertainment. In 1999, she wrote and directed her own short film, A Wakening. The film won two film festival awards.