For more than 20 years he's made his living doing what he enjoys. Business, however, is more than fun.
Nance sees it as, well, a stage for expressing values and faith.
His Dallas-based company, Samarco Inc., specializes in theatrical stage lighting, staging scenery for business meetings, fashion shows, parties, even some church drama. If you've attended large Mennonite events like Wichita 95, Orlando 97 or last fall's MEDA convention in Dallas, you may have seen him or his staff setting up screens, lugging cables and checking microphones. They're the gaffers who make sure the rest of us can actually see and hear what's going on. On stage and off His life in the theatre began back in ninth grade when he won the role of Sergeant Gregovich in Teahouse of the August Moon. He later majored in theatre at Bethel College in Kansas, and went on to the Dallas Theatre Center to work on a master's degree.