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Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
''Five Women Wearing the Same Dress'' is a play written in 1993 by Alan Ball. Plot The play is a comedy set at the home of the bride in Knoxville, Tennessee during the newly married couple's ostentatious wedding reception. The five bridesmaids have found refuge in the room of Meredith, the sister of the bride. The women come to realize that despite their differences, they have more in common with each other than any of them do with the bride. Characters * Meredith Marlowe: The bride's rebellious, pot-smoking younger sister who is very sarcastic and much annoyed with the whole fiasco downstairs. Sporting an outwardly tough attitude, she has a lot of insecurity to hide. Bridesmaid. * Georgeanne Darby: Tracy's "ugly sidekick" in high school and college. Has accepted the invitation to be a bridesmaid even though her relationship with Tracy is strained because Tracy's boyfriend had once got her pregnant. Bridesmaid. * Trisha: One of Tracy's former friends with a supposed bad repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ball (screenwriter)
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theater. Ball wrote the screenplay for '' American Beauty,'' for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also created the series '' Six Feet Under'' and ''True Blood'', works for which he earned an Emmy as well as awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds of America. He was an executive producer on the Cinemax television series ''Banshee''. He also wrote and directed the film '' Uncle Frank''. Early life Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, respectively an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. His older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car accident when Ball was 13; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta before going to college at the University of Georgia and Florida State University. Ball graduated from Florida State in 1980 with a degree in theater arts. After coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melia Bensussen
Melia Bensussen (born September 18, 1962) is an American theatre director and producer who has been artistic director of the Hartford Stage since 2019. She won an OBIE Award for Outstanding Direction for ''Turn of the Screw'' in 1999 and is Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College. Biography Born in New York City of Jewish heritage and raised in Mexico City and San Diego, California, Bensussen is a graduate of La Jolla High School and of Brown University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and comparative literature. She studied Yiddish theatre on a fellowship to Israel and taught English in Japan before returning to New York City to work as a translator and actor. Her first professional job was at the Hartford Stage, assisting the director Emily Mann (director) as a fellow of The Drama League Directors' Project in a production of A Doll's House featuring Mark Lamos in 1986. Fluent in Spanish, she directed for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays By Alan Ball
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Orlagh Cassidy
Orlagh Cassidy is an American actress. Career Cassidy made her Broadway debut in ''Present Laughter'' with Frank Langella in 1996. She portrayed Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, in the play ''The Adult in the Room,'' a Broadway Factor NYC world premiere written by Bill McMahon and directed by Heather Arnson and Conor t Bagley, which premiered at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. She appeared off-Broadway in ''Bright Ideas'' at MCC; on Broadway in ''Our Country's Good'' and "Present Laughter"; regionally in ''Richard III" (Lady Anne)'' with Richard Thomas, Mark Lamos directing; and in ''The Misanthrope'' at Philadelphia Drama Guild, among other productions. Cassidy later played Doris Wolfe on ''Guiding Light'' (1999–2000, 2001, 2002, 2004–2009). She narrated the 2013 TV series ''Desperate Measures''. Accolades Cassidy received a nomination for the 2007 Drama Desk Outstanding Actress in a Play for the Off-Broadway production of ''"The Field" at The Irish Rep.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gibson
Thomas Ellis Gibson (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his television roles as Daniel Nyland on '' Chicago Hope'' (1994–1997), Greg Montgomery on '' Dharma & Greg'' (1997–2002) and Aaron Hotchner on '' Criminal Minds'' (2005–2016). Early life Gibson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Charles M. "Mac" and Beth Gibson. His mother was a social worker, and his father was a lawyer and liberal Democrat who served in the South Carolina state Senate and House. He is Catholic. Gibson's interest in the performing arts began at a young age. Gibson was fascinated by Louis Armstrong. He and his sister were on a swim team together, and they frequented a pizza parlor after their swim meets. It was at this pizza parlor that Gibson would sing along with a Dixieland band, complete with his attempt to impersonate Armstrong's singing voice. As a child, Gibson enrolled in Little Theater School and later graduated from Bishop England High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards. Born in Boston and raised in Dayton, Ohio, Janney received a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art following her graduation from Kenyon College. After years of minor and uncredited film and television appearances, Janney's breakthrough came with the role of C. J. Cregg in the NBC political drama ''The West Wing'' (1999–2006), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2014, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Margaret Scully on the Showtime period drama ''Masters of Sex''. For her portrayal of Bonnie Plun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Aidem
Betsy Aidem (born October 28, 1957) is an American actress who plays for film, television and stage. Her film work includes ''The Bleeding House'', '' See You in the Morning'', ''A Vigilante'' and '' Aeris''. Her television work includes '' The High Life'', '' The Americans'', appearing in episodes, " Safe House" and " Covert War". Her stage work includes ''Steel Magnolias'' and ''Five Women Wearing the Same Dress''. Background An Obie Award winner, she first became interested in acting while she was in high school. Her debut was as a fairy in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. She is also a stage play director and her first professional production was in 2018, ''A Doll's House, Part 2.'', which was a stage production of the Lucas Hnath comedy. She was the first wife of William Fichtner and had a child with him. Stage work Midway through 2009, Aidem was in Nicki Bloom's ''Tender'', a story about an act of violence that destroys a family. The play, directed by Daniela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Walker
Allene Damian "Ally" Walker (born August 25, 1961) is an American actress. She made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' (1988) before landing the leading roles on the short-lived dramas '' True Blue'' (1989–1990), and '' Moon Over Miami'' (1993). During the 1990s, Walker had roles in films such as '' Universal Soldier'' (1992), '' Singles'' (1992), '' When the Bough Breaks'' (1994), '' While You Were Sleeping'' (1995), '' Kazaam'' (1996), and '' Happy, Texas'' (1999). From 1996 to 1999, she played the leading role of Doctor Samantha Waters in the NBC crime drama series '' Profiler'', for which she received Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television nomination. She returned to television with a role in the HBO drama series '' Tell Me You Love Me'' (2007), and later played villainous Agent June Stahl in the FX crime drama, ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2010). Walker also had the leading role in the short-lived Lifetime police drama series '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Campbell
Amelia Campbell (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian-born, American-raised actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, but grew up in Ithaca, New York. A stage and film actress, she has appeared in such films as ''The Paper'', ''My Louisiana Sky'', ''Single White Female'', and ''Lorenzo's Oil''. Personal life Campbell was born in Montreal but grew up in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1988. She is married to Anthony Arkin (b. 1967), younger brother of actor Adam Arkin. Career In 1990, Campbell played a small role in ''The Exorcist III''. In 1992 she played roles in ''Single White Female'' and ''Lorenzo's Oil''. She appeared in Ron Howard's film ''The Paper'' in 1994. In 1999 she played Patty the stage manager in ''Macbeth in Manhattan'', which was filmed in one of New York City's historic theatres. In 2001 she played the role of Corinna Ramsey Parker in ''My Louisiana Sky'', directed by her brother-in-law Adam Arkin. In 2008, she played Sandra Zeller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Spybey
Dina Spybey (born August 29, 1965) also known as Dina Waters and Dina Spybey-Waters is an American actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including ''John Q.'', ''subUrbia'' and ''The Haunted Mansion''. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of '' Six Feet Under''. She played "young Elise Eliot" in '' The First Wives Club'' and a ghost named Emma in Disney's film The Haunted Mansion. Career Spybey attended undergraduate studies at Ohio State and then received her M.F.A. from Rutgers University at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. She was the character Dottie in '' Greg the Bunny'', appeared in ''Remember WENN'', and also played a stripper colleague of Demi Moore's in ''Striptease''. She played a supporting role in her husband Mark Waters' film ''Just Like Heaven'' (2005). Spybey portrayed a ghost named Emma in the 2003 Disney movie The Haunted Mansion. She had a small role in Waters' '' Freaky Friday''. She also appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backless Dress
A backless dress is a style of women’s clothing designed to expose the wearer's back. The back may be either partially exposed with a low cut or fully exposed with the use of strings. A backless dress is most commonly worn on formal occasions or as evening wear or as wedding dresses and can be of any length, from a miniskirt-length to floor-length. Other backless styles include backless swimsuits and tops, such as a haltertop. Evolution Backless dresses first appeared in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the style became associated with the sun tanning fashions of the time, and the backless dress was a way of showing off a tan, usually without tan lines. The wearer usually had to be slim to be able to pull off the effect. In December 1937, the actress Micheline Patton was controversially filmed from behind while wearing a backless dress in the final episode of the early BBC fashion documentary '' Clothes-Line''.Taylor, Lou, ''Establishing Dress History'', chapter 2 (Manchester 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCC Theater
MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company) is an off-Broadway theater company located in New York City, founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey and William Cantler. Blake West joined the company in 2006 as executive director. MCC opened the doors to its new home in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, on January 9, 2019. Mission MCC is one of New York's nonprofit off-Broadway companies, driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Founded in 1986 as a collective of artists leading peer-based classes to support their own development as actors, writers and directors, the tenets of collaboration, education, and community are at the core of MCC Theater's programming. One of the only theaters in the country led continuously by its founders, Artistic Directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, and William Cantler, MCC fulfills its mission through the production of wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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