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VALERIE HARPER most recently
appeared on Broadway starring in
Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s
Wife. After running almost a year in
New York, Ms. Harper then starred in the
national tour. Off-Broadway she co-wrote and
starred in All Under Heaven, a one-woman play
based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning
author Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth). She starred in Elaine May’s and Woody Allen’s Death Defying Acts, also Off-Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Paul Sills’ Story Theatre and Metamorphoses, Something Different (by Carl Reiner), Subways Are For Sleeping, Wildcat, Take Me Along, Destry Rides Again, and Li’l Abner. During her long and varied career, Ms. Harper has starred in a wide variety of television films, specials and feature films, as well as five on-air prime-time series. Most notably, she spent nine years as the character of Rhoda Morgenstern on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on her own series, Rhoda. She was the recipient of Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Woman Of The Year Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Golden Apple Award, and four Emmy Awards. She’s currently working with her husband, Tony Cacciotti, developing a series of health-related television specials. The couple lives in Los Angeles and has a daughter, Cristina, who is an actress. |
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Playwright WILLIAM GIBSON has written poetry, fiction and scripts for stage, television and films. His plays include The Miracle Worker (winner of the Tony Award for “Best Play” in 1960), Two For The Seesaw, A Cry of Players, Golda (from which Golda’s Balcony is loosely adapted), The Butterfingers Angel, Monday After The Miracle, Goodly Creatures and Handy Dandy. He is the author of a novel, The Cobweb, as well as the musical version of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. His several books include The Seesaw Log, A Mass for the Dead (a study of his family), A Season in Heaven, and Shakespeare’s Game, a critical study. Golda’s Balcony is his latest play. It set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005.
Returning to direct Golda’s Balcony in its national tour is the play’s Broadway director, SCOTT SCHWARTZ. Mr. Schwartz was previously represented on Broadway as the co-director of Jane Eyre with John Caird. He also directed the highly acclaimed Off-Broadway hits tick, tick. . . BOOM!, Bat Boy: The Musical and Franz Kafka’s The Castle. All of the Broadway designers will reprise their roles for the road show, including set designer ANNA LOUIZOS (Avenue Q, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas), costume designer JESS GOLDSTEIN (Take Me Out, Enchanted April, Proof), lighting designer HOWELL BINKLEY (Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade), sound designer MARK BENNETT (The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s The Search . . .) and video and projection designer ROBIN SILVESTRI (The Rocky Horror Show, Bring in Da Noise...)
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