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Gregg T. Daniel is best known for his recurring role as David Carter in HBO's show Insecure. In addition, he plays Reverend Daniels on another one of HBO's hit shows True Blood. With over 100 credits in film and television, Gregg's roles span the spectrum from comedy (I Am Not Okay With This) to drama (Insecure) to procedurals (911, Grey's Anatomy), science fiction (Star Trek: Voyager) and children's shows (Austin & Ally, Kickin' It). Big screen credits include Spiderman 3, 7th & Union, and Truth Or Dare. Gregg recurred on HBO's Insecure and starred in the award-winning film 7th And Union. Currently, he is set to be in the upcoming sequel of Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux. Gregg is a very accomplished theater director. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles-based Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. He was nominated for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for helming the Los Angeles production of “Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina's Kitchen”, also winning the NAACP Award for Best Ensemble for 2013. In addition, he has directed three August Wilson Plays. Prior, his stage direction included 2009's acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard's “Heroes”, Sybyl Walker's “Beneath Rippling Waters”, Lee Blessing's “Cobb”, and Frank McGuinness's “Someone Who'll Watch Over Me”. Gregg also directed Pulitzer Prize-winning author August Wilson's “Seven Guitars” For Theatre 150 in Ojai, California, he directed Athol Fugards' “Sizwe Bansi”, Diana Son's “Stop Kiss”, and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, “I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright”. Gregg has also directed and acted in various theater productions including, “Hamlet”, “Radio Golf”, and “Les Blancs”. He recently directed his fourth August Wilson play, "King Hedley II," at A Noise Within Theatre and is set to direct his fifth. This marks the halfway mark through the playwright's ten-play cycle. @stagelync Thank you to our sponsor @clear-com The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com
Gregg T. Daniel is best known for his recurring role as David Carter in HBO's show Insecure. In addition, he plays Reverend Daniels on another one of HBO's hit shows True Blood. With over 100 credits in film and television, Gregg's roles span the spectrum from comedy (I Am Not Okay With This) to drama (Insecure) to procedurals (911, Grey's Anatomy), science fiction (Star Trek: Voyager) and children's shows (Austin & Ally, Kickin' It). Big screen credits include Spiderman 3, 7th & Union, and Truth Or Dare. Gregg recurred on HBO's Insecure and starred in the award-winning film 7th And Union. Currently, he is set to be in the upcoming sequel of Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux. Gregg is a very accomplished theater director. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles-based Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. He was nominated for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for helming the Los Angeles production of “Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina's Kitchen”, also winning the NAACP Award for Best Ensemble for 2013. In addition, he has directed three August Wilson Plays. Prior, his stage direction included 2009's acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard's “Heroes”, Sybyl Walker's “Beneath Rippling Waters”, Lee Blessing's “Cobb”, and Frank McGuinness's “Someone Who'll Watch Over Me”. Gregg also directed Pulitzer Prize-winning author August Wilson's “Seven Guitars” For Theatre 150 in Ojai, California, he directed Athol Fugards' “Sizwe Bansi”, Diana Son's “Stop Kiss”, and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, “I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright”. Gregg has also directed and acted in various theater productions including, “Hamlet”, “Radio Golf”, and “Les Blancs”. He recently directed his fourth August Wilson play, "King Hedley II," at A Noise Within Theatre and is set to direct his fifth. This marks the halfway mark through the playwright's ten-play cycle. “ATTENTION SPOTIFY LISTENERS: IF you want to WATCH this with VIDEO, you can also subscribe to our video version: https://open.spotify.com/show/5e9KnBRZdjUTXTvCe6Nrqm?si=6639537c61044396” @stagelync Thank you to our sponsor @clear-com The StageLync Podcast is a branch of our larger StageLync Community. Come visit us at www.stagelync.com
Here are the top stories in Friday's paper: Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen looks back at sheriff days, legislative work. Plans have been drawn for Alexandria's 22 parks and an open house will take place Feb. 9. Fire Pit Productions to debut new play, Stop Kiss on Feb. 10. The Alexandria boys swimming and diving team bested Melrose-Sauk Centre with a 110-76 win. To read more from these stories and others, look for them in our print edition and online at echopress.com Support local journalism by subscribing and becoming a member at echopress.com. Your support will allow us to keep you informed.
It's time for another visit with Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. Today, she spotlights Baltimore's Vagabond Players production of Stop Kiss, a 1998 drama by playwright Diana Son. This complex tale of love, endurance and compassion is directed at Vagabond Players by Belle Burr, and is recommended for mature audiences because it contains descriptions of assault and hate crime. (Today's review contains an audio clip in which the word "dyke" is used.) Stop Kiss continues at Vagabond Players through September 25. Follow the link for more information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we are excited to bring you a very special episode featuring Theater Professor Christine Cummings and Mt. SAC students Emma Frickert, El Ramirez, and Lucie Higuera in conversation about Mt. SAC's production of the play Stop Kiss. Variety calls Stop Kiss ”a poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably.” Thanks for joining us. Resources: Mt. SAC Theater Current Season Mt. SAC Pride Center Theater on Social Media Instagram: @mtsacpridecenter Run Time: 30 min, 57 sec To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE
Karissa Murrell Myers (she/her) is a Filipino-American theatre artist based out of Chicago. She was also named American Theater Magazine's 2020 Roll Call: 13 Theatre Workers You Should Know for her work in casting. In our conversation, we cover the differences between NY, Hawaii, and Chicago theater scenes, why diversity is so important to her, going to college at 16 years old, beating out every white guy who auditioned for Iago in a Chicago production of The Scottish Play, playing Lady Nijo in Top Girls, not just in Chicago but also in Milwaukee, and her dream of creating a theatre company that fosters and grows artists - and how it may have come true!Trigger Warning: discussions of weight, numbers in pounds, eating disorders, cutting, alcoholism.Calls to Action:Asian Americans Advancing Justice:https://www.advancingjustice-chicago.orgFelines and Canines:https://www.felinescanines.orgEdited by Amelia Driscoll at Summit Podcasting - https://summitpodcasting.com/Music by Eric Backus - https://www.ericbackus.com/Artwork by Meredith Montgomery - https://www.meredithmontgomery.design/
Let's Talk About Stop Kiss. Season 2 - Episode 5: On Behalf of the Whole Community.A Public Fit Theatre Company is an award-winning ensemble theatre based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this episode of Behind the Buzz, Producing Director Joe Kucan and Artistic Director Ann-Marie Pereth continue the conversation about Diana Son's Stop Kiss with director Kimberly Mellon and actors Adriana Chavez and Gabrielle Silveroli. A frank and illuminating conversation about the thrill of romance, the necessity of inclusion and the transformative power of storytelling. Behind the Buzz is a production of A Public Fit Theatre Company in association with Giantleap Industries. Copyright 2022, all rights reserved. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Gabrielle Scawthorn joins us to perform Helena's soliloquy from the opening scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She talks about playing Helena, creating her own work, what it's like to audition with food poisoning and why her dream Shakespeare role may be an unconventional choice. Gabrielle Scawthorn is an actor and writer. She is a three-time Sydney Theatre Award nominee and appears as Helena in Bell Shakespeare's 2021 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her previous theatre credits include The Apologists at Omnibus Theatre in London; E-Baby and Blood Bank for the Ensemble Theatre; Stop Kiss at ATYP; The Village Bike at The Old Fitz and The Sound of Waiting for Darlinghurst Theatre. She is the host of the popular podcast Back From Reality which explores the world of reality television and the impact that it has on the lives of its participants. You can follow Gabrielle on Instagram @gjosca and listen to Back to Reality here. You can find out more about Bell Shakespeare's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream here.
Gregg Daniel talks about his time on "True Blood", working on "Insecure", his new film "7th & Union", a truly heartbreaking audition mishap, and shares some wonderful advice every actor should hear!About Gregg Daniel:Gregg T. Daniel is best known for his role as Reverend Daniels on HBO’s hit show True Blood. With over 100 credits in film and television, Gregg’s roles span the spectrum from comedy (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds) to drama (The West Wing, Castle, Desperate Housewives) to procedurals (NCIS), science fiction (Star Trek: Voyager) and children’s shows (Austin & Ally, Kickin’ It). Big screen credits include Spiderman 3, Hancock, Mars Attacks, Evan Almighty, Pump Up The Volume, and White Men Can’t Jump. Currently, Gregg is recurring on HBO’s Insecure and stars in the upcoming film 7th And Union.An accomplished theatre director, Gregg is the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles-based Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, and was nominated for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for helming the Los Angeles production of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen, which also won the NAACP Award for Best Ensemble for 2103. Prior to that, his stage direction included 2009’s acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s Heroes, Sybyl Walker’s Beneath Rippling Waters, Lee Blessing’s Cobb, and Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. Gregg also directed the world premiere of solo performance artist Joyce Guy’s War Stories at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and at St. Mark’s Church in New York. For Theatre 150 in Ojai, California, he directed Athol Fugards’ Sizwe Bansi, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss, and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.Twitter: @RealGreggDanielInstagram: @officialgreggdaniel
Good morning, good morning, good morning this morning, we have a new episode with the great Brooke Smith. You Might Know Her From Series 7: The Contenders, Grey’s Anatomy, Big Sky, Weeds, Vanya on 42nd Street, Bad Company, Iron Jawed Angels, and The Silence of the Lambs. Brooke looks back with us on her lead performance in the super prescient indie Series 7: The Contenders, the strange way she was let go as Dr. Erika Hahn on Grey’s Anatomy after being one-half of the lesbian couple “Callica” with Sara Ramirez’s Callie Torres, the mindfuck of being told to gain weight for your first acting gig, and the beautiful camaraderie of the ensemble of actors that brought to life Vanya on 42nd Street. All that, plus theatre, New York, straight actors playing queer, and reconnecting with her old friend Mary Louise Parker. Plus none of us ever seeing Chris Nolan’s Interstellar. Let us know what you think, bambinas! Follow us on social media: @damianbellino || @rodemanne Metamucil is psyllium. Damian loves body pillows, Anne loves heating pads and lavender sachets. Things that calm our almost 40 year old bodies these days: 417HZ playlists=white noise/womb noise, acupressure mat, weighted blanket, Tourmaline Gamerline is Carly Simon’s IG character “You’re So Vain” was written about Warren Beatty (and she auctioned off this gossip for charity)Carly Simon’s song “Bat (Fly in Me Face)” and also soundtrack for This is My LIfe (the Nora Ephron movie starring Julie Kavner and our very first guest, Samantha Mathis) Samantha Mathis full episode of YMKHF (our very first ep!) Carly Simon was in the Woody Allen doc denouncing him Carly Simon is Simon of Simon & Schuster and was married to James Taylor Series 7: The Contenders (2001, dir: Dan Minahan) Series 7 also stars Marylouise Burke and Merrit Weaver Brooke watched a lot of Cops to prepare Season 40 of Survivor aired last year Stars as Catherine Martin in Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme (director of Silence of the Lambs) chose Brooke for the role Brooke’s mom (Lois Smith, not the actress) was a publicist (worked for Michelle Pfeiffer) and Michelle recommended Brooke to Demme. Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) wanted to make a skin suit of his victims. Vincent d’Onofrio was in Brooke’s acting class and had just gained 70 lbs for Full Metal Jacket Brooke announced she’s usually a size 10-12 on The View Played Dr. Erica Hahn on Grey’s Anatomy for 4 seasons (she replaced Dr Burke, Isaiah Washington who was fired for allegedly slinging gay slurs at TR Knight) Played a love interest for Sara Ramirez’ character, Callie Was Brooke Smith fired from Grey’s for supporting Ralph Nader in 2008? Brooke Smith talking about how she hated that the Grey’s writers were writing “gay panic” Brooke Smith is pansexual! Ammonite with Kate Winslet and Saorsie Ronan’s press tour was embarrassing To the Bone opposite Lil Taylor, in Stop Kiss opposite Sandra Oh Calamity Jane on Deadwood was written for Brooke Smith Also played a lesbian in The Crossing Vanya on 42nd Street had a starry audience while they were rehearsing Uncle Vanya, the play by Anton Chekhov for 3 years Brooke would see Glenn Fitzgerald in anything on stage Was in pilot of Dirty Sexy Money but was replaced by Sheryl Lee We would see Tyne Daly in anything ever any old day We love all the Mary Louise’s: Burke, Wilson, Parker Brooke was very good on the new series Big Sky. The next season features Ted Levine Brooke recommends Call My Agent (Netflix) Jean Dujardin from The Artist Iron Jawed Angels starred Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Vera Farmiga Bad Company directed by Joel Shumacher (“gay legend”) Played Nancy Botwin’s friend in Weeds “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again” Plays Toni Colette’s best friend in In Her Shoes. Part of the hardcore punk scene in 1980s NYC Worked at Trash & Vaudeville Grey’s Anatomy uses pig bones for actors to saw through as they play doctors Worked with a ton of heavy hitting directors: Jonathan Demme (best), Christopher Nolan (worst?), Robert Altman, Mira Nair, Woody Allen, Curtis Hansen, Jason Reitman (also worst?), Paul Mazursky SNL lesbian period drama sketch Brooke was in Series 7 with Merritt Weaver, who was in Nurse Jackie with Anna Deveare Smith who was in The Manchurian Candidate remake with Jon Voight who was in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider with his daughter, Angelina Jolie who was in Girl, Interrupted with next week’s guest.
Aakanksha Manchanda is an engineer turned performer. Originally from Delhi now settled in Mumbai, Aakanksha has performed on stage, done short movies, and was the lead of a traveling musical. In her most recent endeavors, she led the on-stage character of a suppressed gay lover in a play called "Stop Kiss" and is currently teaching Bollywood dance across the border in Europe and Canada. In this episode, Aakanksha talks about making a shift from engineering to creative arts, internalizing the process of character development, and rethinking artistic expression during a global pandemic. Follow The Afflatus: Facebook.com/theafflatuspodcast Facebook.com/unciafilms www.instagram.com/al_rathod Follow Aakanksha: https://www.instagram.com/aakanksha_m7/ https://www.facebook.com/akanksha.manchanda.7 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theafflatus/support
Diana Son is a television writer and producer whose credits include The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, Dirty John, Blue Bloods and Thirteen Reasons Why, where she served as showrunner. She first came to fame as a young playwright in 1998 with the acclaimed play Stop Kiss, which premiered at the Public Theatre and starred an unknown Sandra Oh. In a Zoom interview, Catherine and Juliana learn about Diana's recent bout with Covid-19, her experience being the only Asian or Asian woman in countless writing rooms and her most recent project, an adaptation of the novel If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha into a series for Apple. Follow Diana Son on Twitter @dianason Follow K-Pod on Instagram @kpodpod Hosts: Juliana Sohn @juliana_sohn and Catherine Hong @catherinehong100 Editor: AJ Valente Producer: Jessica Park Executive Producer: HJ Lee
Diana Son is a television writer and producer whose credits include The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, Dirty John, Blue Bloods and Thirteen Reasons Why, where she served as showrunner. She first came to fame as a young playwright in 1998 with the acclaimed play Stop Kiss, which premiered at the Public Theatre and starred an unknown Sandra Oh. In a Zoom interview, Catherine and Juliana learn about Diana’s recent bout with Covid-19, her experience being the only Asian or Asian woman in countless writing rooms and her most recent project, an adaptation of the novel If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha into a series for Apple. Follow Diana Son on Twitter @dianason Follow K-Pod on Instagram @kpodpod Hosts: Juliana Sohn @juliana_sohn and Catherine Hong @catherinehong100 Editor: AJ Valente Producer: Jessica Park Executive Producer: HJ Lee
As an accomplished theatre director, Gregg is the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles-based Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, and was nominated for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for helming the Los Angeles production of Elmina's Kitchen, which also won the NAACP Award for Best Ensemble for 2103. Prior to that, his stage direction included 2009's acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard's Heroes, Sybyl Walker's Beneath Rippling Waters, Lee Blessing's Cobb, and Frank McGuinness's Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.Gregg also directed the world premiere of solo performance artist Joyce Guy's War Stories at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and at St. Mark's Church in New York. For Theatre 150 in Ojai, California, he directed Athol Fugards' Sizwe Bansi, Diana Son's Stop Kiss, and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner, I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright. A trained theatre actor from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Gregg's stage acting credits Shakespeare Center of L.A.'s production of Romeo & Juliet, the Williamstown Theatre Festival productions of Back Country Crimes, and Gogol, The Mark Taper Forum's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, the Pasadena Playhouse's Jitney, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Master Harold, Hartford Stage Company's Peer Gynt, and South Coast Repertory's Fences, and Death Of A Salesman.In this episode we discuss the concepts of acting, how its an ever evolving process, and if there is anything else in life you want to do besides acting, do that. We covered these topics and much more!
ft. Sir Ian McKellen Nathaniel Morrison Idriss Kargbo Sam Tutty Ghost Quartet. Boulevard Theatre. Gloves Off. Dear Evan Hansen. &Juliet. Rage, But Hope. Streatham Space Project. Stephanie Martin. Scott Le Crass. Dior Clarke & Emma Davies. Stop Kiss. Kylie Vilcins for Above the Stag Finale. Boulevard Theatre. Gregory J. Cox. Simone Miller. Orama Saukila. Michael Webborn Afterglow at the Waterloo East. The Green Fairy. The Union Theatre. Fools & Kings. Evening Standard Theatre Awards
We have Missy Maramara, all-around amazing theater actor, teacher and goddess, talking about the process of studying theatre and imparting her knowledge to the next generation of theater practitioners.
Australian short story publisher, Spineless Wonders is excited to be releasing the very first episode of Coffee Pod|cast and introducing your hosts, Emma Walsh and Ali Morris. Join Emma and Ali as each episode they select for you a microfiction, read by an actor, and then chat about it over their morning coffee. In this first episode, they have chosen 'Sanctuary' read by Kate Fraser and recorded live at Little Fictions, a show performed in Sydney's Knox Street Bar. 'Sanctuary' was written by Shady Cosgrove and is published in Landmarks, an anthology of prose poems and microfiction edited by Cassandra Atherton. About the author SHADY COSGROVE is the author of What the Ground Can’t Hold (Picador, 2013) and She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Overland, Antipodes, Southerly and other Spineless Wonders anthologies. About the actor KATE FRASER is a graduate of the Actors Centre Australia. Her theatre credits include Book of Days at New Theatre as well as Stop Kiss and Starlight Stories. More recently Kate has appeared in TV episodes of Home and Away, Janet King, and A Place to Call Home. Credits Presented by Ali Morris and Emma Walsh. Theme music by James Seymour. Produced by Bronwyn Mehan. This podcast project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and we wish to acknowledge the support of Little Fictions by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund and the City of Sydney Matching Grants program.
Don and I talk about the new film The David Dance, what it means to feel different, self-esteem issues, fitting in and his take on a story that has “universal appeal.” For more information about TIFF go here. IMDB Trailer More info about the film here. Synopsis Away from the microphone, David (Don Scimé) is soft spoken, shy and unsure of himself. However, as his on-air alias, "Danger Dave" - host of the local radio show "Gay Talk" in Buffalo, New York - he's poised, witty and every listener's best friend. His sister, Kate (Antoinette LaVecchia), is a thrice-divorced banker with a yen for classical music and cats. Though successful, the siblings suffer from a secret, yet vast sense of inadequacy. Kate decides to adopt an orphan in Brazil and asks David to be a father figure. Meanwhile, David grapples with his self-doubts while gawkily romancing his co-worker. Past and present intertwine in this bittersweet winter's tale of a man learning to love and accept himself. The film is the feature directorial debut of television vet Aprill Winney, who has worked as a script supervisor for over twenty years on shows like “Arrested Development,” “Family Tree,” and “The Fosters,” for which she has also directed multiple episodes. “The David Dance” is based on the Don Scimé play of the same name. Biography Don Scimé (David / Writer / Producer) performed in his play version of "The David Dance" as part of The New York International Fringe Festival and in Washington, D.C. Other New York and regional theatre credits include original works at The Ensemble Studio Theatre; "Love's Labours Lost" for The Peterborough Players in New Hampshire; "Nighthawks" at The Studio Theatre (D.C.); "Stop Kiss" at The Shadowland Theatre; Treplev in "The Sea Gull" and The Actor in "The Lower Depths" (Theatre Row). Television credits include "The Dave Chapelle Show". B.A.: Theatre, SUNY, Geneseo. A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Academy Company, he received The Charles Jehlinger Award for Acting and The American Theatre Wing Scholarship. ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, & Wendy Kesselman, at the New Jewish Theatre, (2) ANTIGONE, by Sophocles, at Upstream Theater, (3) AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, by Agatha Christie, at Stray Dog Theatre, (4) BONNIE AND CLYDE, by Ivan Menchell, Frank Wildhorn, & Don Black, at New Line Theatre, (5) SIDE SHOW, by Bill Russell & Henry Krieger, at Over Due Theatre Co., (6) STOP KISS, by Diane Son, at the Webster Univ. Conservatory, (7) NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, by George & Ira Gershwin & Joe DiPietro, at the Peabody Opera House, (8) ANON(YMOUS), by Naomi Iisuka, at Washington Univ., and (9) BUS STOP, by William Inge, at Saint Louis Univ.
Jessica Hecht, now on Broadway as Eddie Carbone's long-suffering but cleared-eyed wife Beatrice in the Broadway revival of "A View From The Bridge", talks about her role in the play's tragic love triangle and why her preparation for this performance was so different than her usual practice. She also discusses how she began studying at Connecticut College, only to have the famed actor Morris Carnovsky send her off to New York to study at New York University; her earliest roles, including an appearance in "Hamlet" at Hartford Stage, near her hometown of Bloomfield CT, as a silent lady-in-waiting to Pamela Payton-Wright as Gertrude; her Broadway debut in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" where, after being raised in an observant Jewish home, she appeared as part of a Southern family disconnected from their Jewish roots; how she handled portraying a character alternating between dawning love and heart-rending tragedy in the non-linear "Stop Kiss"; working on "After The Fall" at the Roundabout with Arthur Miller and her interaction with the legendary playwright; playing in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with Denzel Washington -- and how that yielded the greatest entrance ovation she's ever experienced; the joy and pain of opening in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" but never being able to perform for an audience in the prematurely closed "Broadway Bound"; and why she's drawn back to the Williamstown Theatre Festival year after year. Original air date - March 17, 2010.
Jessica Hecht, now on Broadway as Eddie Carbone's long-suffering but cleared-eyed wife Beatrice in the Broadway revival of "A View From The Bridge", talks about her role in the play's tragic love triangle and why her preparation for this performance was so different than her usual practice. She also discusses how she began studying at Connecticut College, only to have the famed actor Morris Carnovsky send her off to New York to study at New York University; her earliest roles, including an appearance in "Hamlet" at Hartford Stage, near her hometown of Bloomfield CT, as a silent lady-in-waiting to Pamela Payton-Wright as Gertrude; her Broadway debut in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" where, after being raised in an observant Jewish home, she appeared as part of a Southern family disconnected from their Jewish roots; how she handled portraying a character alternating between dawning love and heart-rending tragedy in the non-linear "Stop Kiss"; working on "After The Fall" at the Roundabout with Arthur Miller and her interaction with the legendary playwright; playing in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with Denzel Washington -- and how that yielded the greatest entrance ovation she's ever experienced; the joy and pain of opening in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" but never being able to perform for an audience in the prematurely closed "Broadway Bound"; and why she's drawn back to the Williamstown Theatre Festival year after year. Original air date - March 17, 2010.
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