{"id":1397,"date":"2013-02-17T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T04:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australiansforhonestpolitics.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1397"},"modified":"2013-07-18T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T05:06:07","slug":"nancy-cato","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/nancy-cato\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Cato"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nancy Cato<\/p><\/div>\n

Nancy Cato<\/strong> is an actor\/director, public speaker and writer whose name is synonymous with\u00a0pioneering Children\u2019s Television programs The Magic Circle Club<\/em> and Adventure Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After training as an actor in the early 60s with the legendary Wal Cherry and Patricia Kennedy\u00a0(and despite being born with profound hearing loss), Nancy began her career at the ABC\u00a0television and radio studios and was appointed the first female presenter at regional TV station GMV-6, Shepparton.<\/p>\n

Nancy became a paraplegic as the result of an accident at the ATV-O studios while\u00a0recording an episode of The Magic Circle Club<\/em>. Her subsequent healing of paraplegia and\u00a0return to television has been documented in her published story in City Women Country Women\u00a0Crossing the Boundaries.<\/em>\u00a0Nancy\u2019s dual interests in young people\u2019s development and metaphysical healing led her to London University and years of working with disadvantaged youth in the Northern\u00a0Territory and the Mallee.<\/p>\n

A mother of four, Nancy returned to the workforce in the 1990s to set up a community Arts Centre\u00a0in a disused 100 year-old Church in Melbourne that became the internationally recognised arts\u00a0precinct ‘Chapel Off Chapel’.<\/p>\n

At 73, Nancy has again taken to writing, and has recently returned from\u00a0London to see her play Bea OK<\/em> (co-authored by Tony Taylor) presented as a Reading in the\u00a0West End. She is currently working on a children\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Nancy has equal enthusiasm for the arts, sport, community development, politics and her\u00a0children and grandchildren – not necessarily in that order!<\/p>\n

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Bio Courtesy of Independent Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Cato is an actor\/director, public speaker and writer whose name is synonymous with\u00a0pioneering Children\u2019s Television programs The Magic Circle Club and Adventure Island. After training as an actor in the early 60s with the legendary Wal Cherry and Patricia Kennedy\u00a0(and despite being born with profound hearing loss), Nancy began her career at the ABC\u00a0television […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3t0mw-mx","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}