Vana NesporVana Nespor is an author, academic leader, and playwright who builds community through creating and directing dramas and musical productions based on real stories. During the daytime, she created and implemented degree programs designed for adultwome returning to college. At night, she directed more than 70 productions in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Jakarta, Indonesia. When a community theater needed an outdoor musical, she wrote McNeill's Rangers with composerJohn Hawkins, based on the local Civil War heroes of Hardy County, West Virginia. As a gift to her colleagues at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, she wrote the music and lyrics to Honor and the Man, based on the life of Robert Morris, the man who bankrolled theRevolutionary War and died in disgrace.In 2021 she was asked to write something powerful for the Landes Arts Center of Grant County West Virginia. She gathered stories of the community's struggles during Covid and with four talented composers, created These Months of Our Lives. Along the way, she earned four masters and a doctorate and has finally settled in western Massachusetts with her husband and two cats. Read More Read Less