Kathleen Chalfant

Credits include: Broadway: ANGELS IN AMERICA (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); RACING DEMON, DANCE WITH ME, M. BUTTERFLY. Off-Broadway: PROPHECY, FAMILY WEEK, VITA & VIRGINIA, DEADMAN’S CELL PHONE, SPALDING GRAY: STORIES LEFT TO TELL, WIT for which she won the Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Awards. Regional Theater: Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Playwrights Lab, Mlwaukee Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse and others. Film: DUPLICITY; THE PEOPLE SPEAK; THE LAST NEW YORKER; MURDER AND MURDER; BOB ROBERTS; FIVE CORNERS; JUMPIN’ AT THE BONEYARD; DREAM WORK; A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES; THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO; SIDE STREETS; RANDOM HEARTS; COMPANY MAN and KINSEY. TV: Mercy, Rescue Me, One Life to Live, Book of Daniel, The Guardian, The Laramie Project, Benjamin Franklin, A Death in the Family for PBS Masterpiece Theatre, Law & Order, House of Cards, The Affair. Select Awards: 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance; 1998 Connecticut Critics Circle Award (Wit); 2000 Ovation, Garland, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards (Los Angeles) for WIT. Ms. Chalfant was Artist in Residence at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University for 2005 – 2006, was the Beineke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama in the spring of 2006, the fall of 2008, and the fall of 2010 and is a member of the Board of Advisors of MSF/Doctors Without Borders. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Cooper Union in June 2010.