Birth Place: Jersey City, NJ, USA
Newman got her start in show business at 4 years old imitating Carmen Miranda in theatres and clubs. Her portrayal of Martha Vail in the Jule Styne/Comden and Green musical Subways Are For Sleeping - costumed only in a bath towel - earned her a Tony Award. Her other Broadway credits include Bells Are Ringing, The Apple Tree, On the Town, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Awake and Sing, Wish You Were Here, First Impressions, and her one-woman musical The Madwoman of Central Park West, which she co-authored with Arthur Laurents. She garnered a Tony Award nomination for her highly-acclaimed performance in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound.
Off-Broadway she earned a Drama Desk Nomination for her starring performance in James Lapine's The Moment When... at Playwrights Horizons. She received unanimous praise from critics for her role as an eccentric crisis hotline operator in Nicky Silver's off-Broadway comedy, The Food Chain, appeared with Fisher Stevens and Annabella Sciorra in the Naked Angels production of Shyster and starred in the Drama Desk-nominated revival of A Majority of One. Regionally she has been seen in Pleasures & Palaces and Rocket to the Moon as well as Arthur Laurents' My Good Name directed by Daniel Sullivan.
[1958]Let's Rock Kathy Abbott
[1967]The Naked Witch Robert's Mother
[1968]Bye Bye Braverman Myra Mandelbaum
[1972]To Find a Man Betty McCarthy
[1977]A Secret Space Ann
[1987]Mannequin Emmy's Mother
[1991]Saying Kaddish Lynn
[1994]Only You Faith's Mother
[1997]The Beautician and the Beast Judy Miller
[1998]A Price Above Rubies Mrs. Gelbart
[1998]A Fish in the Bathtub Sylvia Rosen
[2000]It Had to Be You Judith Penn
[2000]Just for the Time Being Maggie
[2003]The Human Stain Iris Silk
100 Centre Street Sarah Rifkind
Coming of Age Ginny Hale
Thirtysomething Elaine Steadman
Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman, The Moment When
Phyllis Newman, Broadway Bound
Phyllis Newman, My Mother was a Fortune Teller
Phyllis Newman, Subways Are for Sleeping
Phyllis Newman has appeared on Broadway in 13 shows.
Phyllis Newman has not appeared in the West End.
Phyllis Newman has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout her career, including a Special Tony Award for her contributions to Broadway. She was also nominated for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play by the Drama Desk Awards for her role in "The Moment When" and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for her performance in "Broadway Bound." Additionally, Newman received a nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical by the Drama Desk Awards for her role in "My Mother was a Fortune Teller" and was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical at the Tony Awards for her performance in "Subways Are for Sleeping."
Phyllis Newman has won the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, the Drama Desk Award for The Moment When, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Subways Are for Sleeping.
Phyllis Newman has written 2 shows including The Madwoman of Central Park West (Bookwriter), Newman & Green (Bookwriter).
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