Jayne Houdyshell
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Birney, Houdyshell, Pedi and More Read On the Rocks for Project ShawReed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Christine Pedi, Kelli Barrett will read On the Rocks for a Nov. 16 Project Shaw presentation. The Gingold Theatrical Group presentation of the George Bernard Shaw classic plays 7 PM at The Players Club. The... In this article: Christine Pedi, George Bernard Shaw, Jayne Houdyshell, and Charles Busch |
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Yahoo! News | November 12, 2009
'Well,' Kron's Play About Wellness and Family History, Opens at Denver Center (Playbill)
...Kent. Well was nominated for two Tony Awards in 2006: Best Actress in a Play (for Kron) and Best Featured Actress in a Play (Jayne Houdyshell). For tickets and information, call (303) 893-6030 o visit line by visiting...
In this article: Well, Lisa Kron, Absurd Person Singular, and Alan Ayckbourn
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Backstage | October 26, 2009
Revival of the Fittest
Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell on tackling 'Bye Bye Birdie' The major challenge in taking on an iconic work like "Bye Bye Birdie" is how profoundly it is identified with other stars, say Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell. They are now...
In this article: Bill Irwin, Lisa Kron, Edward Albee, Mark Teschner, Bye Bye Birdie, Well, Broadway, and The Goat
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New York Times | October 16, 2009
Theater Review 'Bye Bye Birdie': Music to Play, Places to Go, People to See
...voice and a clownish body language (perhaps meant to recall Mr. Van Dyke's) that make him seem the same age as Conrad's fans. (Jayne Houdyshell, an immensely likable actress, seems out of her element as Albert's dragon mom.) This...
In this article: Bye Bye Birdie, Bill Irwin, Gina Gershon, John Stamos, Nolan Gerard Funk, and Roundabout Theater Company
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New Yorker: Everything | October 11, 2009
Goings on About Town: The Theatre
...relocates to New World Stages. In previews. (340 W. 50th St. 212-239-6200.) John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jayne Houdyshell, and Bill Irwin star in the 1960 musical, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom, about...
In this article: Afro-beat, Nolan Gerard Funk, American Airlines, and The Emperor Jones
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Jayne Houdyshell
Jayne Houdyshell (born September 25, 1953) is a Tony Award-nominated American theater actress. Raised in Topeka, Kansas, she is the youngest of four daughters born to Galen "Buzz" Houdyshell and Louella Taylor. She graduated from Topeka...
In this article: Well, Broadway, Itch, Wicked, New York City, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Madame Morrible
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New York Post: Entertainment | June 02, 2009
THINK OTHERWISE
THE single greatest idea in "Coraline" was to cast middle-age Jayne Houdyshell in the title role, a 9-year-old girl. Houdyshell ("Well") is one of our most sensitive actresses, and her characterization of a bold, resourceful little heroine...
In this article: Coraline, David Greenspan, Neil Gaiman, Stephin Merritt, and Magnetic field
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Musical Coraline even stranger than the book (Reuters)
Definitely not for the younger kiddies, this stage version signals its unconventionality with its casting of the middle-aged Jayne Houdyshell in the title role of the unhappy little girl who enters an alternate universe through a magical...
In this article: Coraline, David Greenspan, Stephen Merritt, Magnetic field, and William Youmans
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New York Daily News | June 01, 2009
'Coraline' is children's theater for adults
Jayne Houdyshell plays the plucky kid in the off-Broadway musical 'Coraline.' In "Coraline," a new musical based on the book that spawned the recent animated film, the tween heroine stumbles through a door into a seemingly perfect...
In this article: Coraline, Stephin Merritt, David Greenspan, RSS Feed, Magnetic field, and Anthony Arkin
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New York Times | February 08, 2009
Arts, Briefly: Another 'Coraline' Waits in the Wings
...Theater has just announced a bit of unconventional casting news for its stage adaptation of the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman. Jayne Houdyshell, 55, who was nominated for a Tony award for her performance in "Well," will play the 9-year-old...
In this article: Coraline, Charles Busch, John Leguizamo, Magnetic field, MCC Theater, Freak, David Greenspan, Neil Gaiman, and Stephin Merritt
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Yahoo! News | October 12, 2007
Jayne Houdyshell is 'The Receptionist' in MTC World Premiere, Starting (Playbill)
...which features Josh Charles ("Sports Night"), Robert Foxworth (Twelve Angry Men), Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Jayne Houdyshell (Well, Wicked) and Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked). According to MTC, "At the start of a typical...
In this article: Adam Bock, Joe Mantello, Wicked, Broadway, New York City, Roundabout Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, and Brooklyn Boy
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Jayne Houdyshell (born September 25, 1953) is a Tony Award-nominated American theatre actress. She currently resides in New York City.
Raised in Topeka, Kansas, she is the youngest of four daughters born to Galen "Buzz" Houdyshell and Louella Taylor Houdyshell. She graduated from Topeka High School in 1971, and graduated with honors from the Academy of Dramatic Art at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, (1974). Since the mid 70's she has appeared in over 200 plays at regional theaters throughout America including, Meadow Brook Theater, the Attic Theater, Missouri Repertory Theater, Asolo State Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, Wilma Theater, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena, GeVa Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Totem Pole Playhouse, Peterborough Players and others.
In New York, she is perhaps best known for her role as Ann Kron in the critically-acclaimed Broadway production of Well by Lisa Kron. It was a role that garnered her a Tony Award nomination in 2006. Her other distinctions include winning a Theater World Award, and an OBIE Award for Well off-Broadway in 2004 at the Public Theater. She also received a 2006 Joseph Jefferson award for her performance in The Pain and the Itch, at Steppenwolf Theater, and a 2006 Barrymore Award for her work in The Clean House at the Wilma Theater in Philadephia.
Her television credits include appearances on Conviction, Law & Order, Third Watch, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She has also appeared in such films as Changing Lanes (2002), Garden State (2004), Trust the Man (2006), and Everybody's Fine (to be released)
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- September 25, 1953
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- Topeka, Kansas
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