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Creative Team
Kathleen Turner | Director/June Buckridge
Screen icon Kathleen Turner has garnered critical acclaim for her performances in various movies including Body Heat, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe; Romancing the Stone and Prizzi’s Honor, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for each; Peggy Sue Got Married, which brought Kathleen both an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination; and War of the Roses, and yet another Golden Globe nomination. Kathleen’s extensive film credits also include The Man with Two Brains, with Steve Martin; Jewel of the Nile, with Michael Douglas; The Accidental Tourist; V.I. Warshawski; John Waters’ Serial Mom; Naked in New York; Moonlight and Valentino; The Real Blonde; and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. Kathleen has also starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for which she received a Tony nomination; Indiscretions, The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which she received a second Tony nomination. Kathleen had a major recurring role in Showtime’s hit series Californication. In the spring of 2010, Kathleen starred as Molly Ivins in the world premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Philadelphia Theatre Company and immediately following that shot the starring role in The Perfect Family which opened in theaters this past May and received great reviews for both the film and Kathleen’s performance. Last year Kathleen starred on Broadway in the world premiere of a play called HIGH. This past year she performed Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. She has just completed a tour of HIGH in various cities all over the country. Kathleen will be direct and star in an Off-Broadway production The Killing of Sister George in 2013. In addition to her film and stage credits, Kathleen wrote of her many accomplishments and life experiences in her 2008 autobiography Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, which secured a position on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
Frank Marcus | Playwright
Frank Ulrich Marcus was born in Breslau, Germany in 1928. His family fled to England during World War II and stayed there for the rest of his life. He began his career as both an actor and a playwright in London. Eventually Marcus also developed a career as a theatre critic for the Sunday Telegraph. The Killing of Sister George is his most famous and most produced work. His plays are known for their strong female leads. According to Adam Benedick’s obituary in The Independent in 1996, he was said to be “the champion of the female character in all its aspects, amatory and matronly, emotionally and egocentrically.” Marcus’ attention to female characters was unique in his generation of writers and he is seen as a pioneer of strong women on stage, though he never claimed to be a feminist. Other works of his include The Formation Dancers, single episodes for various British television shows and adaptations of children’s stories. He passed away in London in 1996.
Jeffery Hatcher | Adaptor
Broadway: Never Gonna Dance. Off-Broadway/Regional: Three Viewings, Ten Chimneys, Scotland Road, A Picasso, Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom), Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Turn of the Screw, Cousin Bette, Good 'n Plenty, Mersy of a Storm, Murderers, Mrs. Mannerly, What's the Word For, Ella, Korczak's Children, Smash, The Spy, Armadale, Work Song (with Eric Simonson), Lucky Duck (With Bill Russell and Henry Krieger), To Fool the Eye, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club and others at Manhattan Theatre Club, Yale Rep, The Guthrie, Primary Stages, Arizona Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Asolo Theater, The Acting Company, Northlight, Milwaukee Rep, Children's Theater Company, Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Denver Center, Alley Theater, City Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Indiana Repertory Theater and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad. Film/TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess and episodes of "Columbo." Grants/Awards: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, Edgerton Grant, McKnight and Jerome Foundations, Barrymore Award Best New Play (A Picasso), L.A. Critics Circle Award Best Adaptation (Cousin Bette). Member and/or alumnus: The Playwrights Center, Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild and New Dramatists.
