Nancy Sprowls' "immeasurable dedication and support of high school theatre, Ohio EdTA, and arts education are without peer."

Before her retirement from full-time teaching in 1994, she taught theatre, speech, and debate and served as English Department Chair at Brunswick High School. She directed the co-curricular program in speech and theatre, directing three major productions each year, as well as directing festival plays and coaching the speech team. She also taught creative dramatics for the City of Brunswick Recreation Department and directed children's plays in a Summer Theatre program. She has directed community theatre productions for 14 years.

Her students participated in and performed at many state conferences from 1972 until 1994. She has been active for over 23 years on the Ohio Educational Theatre Association/Ohio Thespian State Board of Directors, first through State Student Officers who were her students, and then through serving as a member of the Board herself beginning in 1980. From 1987 to 1990 she served as State EdTA President and State Thespian Director. From 1992 to 1996 she served as ETA Territory 10 Director, representing EdTA in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. As Territorial Director, she chaired the Region IV Conference in Cleveland in October 1995. She worked for 11 years as a rehearsal assistant for mainstage productions at the International Thespian Festival at Ball State University and at the University of Nebraska. In 1996, she was elected to the Educational Theatre Association Hall of Fame.

Her personal membership in Thespians dates back to her own years in high school at Wheeling High in Wheeling, West Virginia. In college, she earned membership in Alpha Psi Omega, the theatre honorary. While in Columbus working on her master's degree, she was employed as the Business Administrator of Columbus Junior Theatre of the Arts. She later completed additional graduate work in theatre supervision and management at OSU and other universities.

Her theatre involvement was not limited to Thespains and the Educational Theatre Association. From 1961 to 1997, she served as Theatre Education Chair of the Ohio Theatre Alliance. She also completed a six-year term on the board of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education. She was the secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Magical Theatre Company of Barberton for 4 years and is currently secretary and Artistic Director of Brunswick ACT community theatre company. She is on the Board of Trustees for Medina County Arts Council and recently completed a term as President of the Medina County branch of The American Association of University Women. Nancy served as president of the Speech Communication Association of Ohio and was Ohio's 1988-89 Speech Teacher of the Year. She was inducted into Ohio High School Speech League Hall of Fame in 1995.