CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Judith Ivey as Margo Jones
Judith Ivey is the recipient of the Tony Award (twice), the Drama Desk Award (twice), the Obie Award, and countless others for her stagework. Most recently, she was honored with the Sydney Kingsley-Madge Evans Award for 2004 from the Dramatists' Guild.
Her film credits include Devil's Advocate, Washington Square, Mystery, Alaska, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, Harry and Son, Compromising Positions, and most recently, What Alice Found.
She has starred in four television series, the most memorable being Designing Women. She was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in Hallmark's What The Deaf Man Heard. Other TV film credits include The Long, Hot Summer, Decoration Day, Half A Dozen Babies, and Rosered.
In 2004, Ivey was inducted into the Austin Film Society's Texas Film Hall of Fame. In January 2006, she co-starred with Bill Pullman in the Kennedy Center’s revival of The Subject Was Roses.
In 2005, Ivey directed Bad Dates at the Laguna Playhouse, starring Beth Broderick. She also recently directed the very successful production of Steel Magnolias at the Alley Theatre and the off-Broadway play, More, starring Yeardley Smith, which she restaged for the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles. Judith directed Two For The Seesaw at the Westport Playhouse, The Go For It Guy at the Aspen Comedy Festival, and Soccer Moms at Fleetwood Stage.
Judith will be touring the United States in Irene O'Garden's Women On Fire during the 2005-06 season.
Richard Thomas as Tennessee Williams
Richard Thomas has starred in numerous stage, film and television productions, including the Broadway production of A Naked Girl on the Appian Way in 2005. In 2004-2005, he starred in Michael Frayn's Democracy and As You Like It in Central Park.
Prior New York appearances include Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome (Primary Stages), Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden and Tiny Alice, Steve Tesich's Square One (Second Stage), Lincoln Center Theater's The Front Page, Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July, Mary Drayton's The Playroom and his Broadway debut, Sunrise at Compobello in 1958.
He has performed a variety of classical roles around the country, including Hamlet, Richard III and Peer Gynt for Mark Lamos (Hartford Stage), Richard II for Michael Kahn (The Shakespeare Theater), Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Angelo in Measure for Measure for Sir Peter Hall (The Ahmanson), The Count of Monte Cristo for Peter Sellars (Kennedy Center) and Danton's Death for Robert Wilson (The Alley). He also appeared twice in Art in London's West End.
Thomas has starred in over 40 films for television including Terrence McNally's Andre's Mother and Wild Hearts for Hallmark; and has appeared in a range of theatrical films including Winning, Last Summer, Red Sky at Morning, 9/30/55 and Wonder Boys. His television series have included It's a Miracle, Just Cause and The Waltons, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1972.
Upcoming projects include the TV movie Wild Hearts (Hallmark), Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and the national tour of Twelve Angry Men.
Thomas lives in New York with his wife Georgiana and their children, Montana and Kendra.
Marcia Gay Harden, Narrator
Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award in 2001 for her portrayal of Lee Krasner opposite Ed Harris in the feature film Pollock. In addition to the Oscar that year, Harden won the New York Film Critics Award for best supporting actress and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2004, she garnered a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the critically acclaimed film Mystic River.
In 2005, Harden appeared in the Paramount Pictures film Bad News Bears and the independent film American Gun. In 2006, she will appear in Universal Picture's political satire American Dreamz (directed by Paul Weitz), The Walt Disney Company's Hoax, and David Goyer's The Invisible. Her other films include Mona Lisa Smile, Casa de Los Babys, Miller's Crossing and The Spitfire Grill.
Television appearances include roles in TNT's epic Western King of Texas, the CBS drama series The Education of Max Bickford, the highly rated A&E original movie Small Vices, A&E's Thin Air and the CBS movie of the week Guilty Hearts. In 1992, Harden came to the attention of television audiences for her portrayal of Ava Gardner in the CBS mini-series Sinatra.
Harden was featured on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, which earned her a Tony nomination, a Drama Desk Award and a Theater World Award. She also starred in David Rabe's Those the River Keeps. Marcia most recently portrayed "Masha" in the New York Public Theatre's production of The Seagull directed by Mike Nichols.
The actress graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Theater and went on to earn an MFA from the graduate theatre program at New York University.