A conversation with prominent women in theatre -- part the ongoing series, which chronicles and documents the contributions of significant women in theatre. Tovah Feldshuh is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Human Letters. Additionally, for her theatre work, she has won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Drama Leagues, the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress, the Obie, and the Theatre World Awards. On Broadway: Yentil, Sarava!!, Lend Me a Tenor, Golda’s Balcony, Irene’s Vow, Cyrano, Dreyfus in Rehearsal, Rodgers & Hart, and the show stopping trapeze-swinging Berthe in Pippin. On TV: POTUS Pauline Mackenzie on CBS’ Salvation, Deanna Monroe on The Walking Dead, Danielle Melnick on Law & Order, and Naomi Bunch, mother of CW’s Crazy Ex Girlfriend where Feldshuh can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: Where’s the Bathroom! Films include: Kissing Jessica Stein,(Golden Satellite Award), A Walk on the Moon, Brewster’s Millions, Just My Luck, Daniel, The Idolmaker, and more. Linda Winer was chief theater critic of Newsday from 1978-2017. Her criticism has won two first prizes from the American Society of Features Editors, two New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page Awards, the New York Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award. She teaches frequently at the Eugene O’Neill Center, has judged the Pulitzer Prize for drama nine times, five times as panel chair.
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