The First Ladies Coalition
Written & performed by Ginger Grace
Directed by Austin Pendleton
AUSTIN PENDLETON (Director)
AUSTIN PENDLETON is a director, actor, playwright, and teacher of acting.
Recent Broadway roles include The Minutes, by Tracy Letts, and Choir Boy, by Tarell McCraney. His earliest NY acting appearances were in the original NY casts of Oh Dad, Poor Dad….and Fiddler on the Roof, both directed by Jerome Robbins.
His Broadway directing credits include Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Pulitzer Prize Winner); The Little Foxes (with Elizabeth Taylor, Tony-nominated); and Spoils of War, by Michael Weller, also Tony-nominated.
Off-Broadway he has directed three Chekhov plays at Classic Stage Company: Three Sisters (for which he won an Obie); Uncle Vanya, with Maggie Gylenhall and Peter Sarsgaard, and Ivanov, with Ethan Hawke. He is a member of the Ensemble at Chicago’s Tony-winning Steppenwolf Theatre. He has acted in well over 100 movies, and has been a recurring figure on such TV shows as Oz, Homicide, and Law and Order. He has written both plays and books for musicals. Austin teaches acting at HB Studio, founded by Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen, where he also studied acting.
