Carey Perloff's theater career launched when she was 27 at New York's Classic Stage Company, where she staged the American premieres of Harold Pinter's Mountain Language, Tony Harrison's Phaedra Britannicus and the world premiere of Ezra Pound's Elektra. Perloff was the youngest person ever to be hired to run a major LORT theater when A.C.T. chose her in 1992 to become its third Artistic Director. In her twenty-plus years since, she's had deep collaborations with writers Tom Stoppard, Philip Gotanda, Robert Wilson, Frank Galati and Timberlake Wertenbaker, and with the great actors Bill Irwin, David Strathairn and Olympia Dukakis, among many others. Perloff has written a number of award-winning plays, as well. She has now embarked upon a new theater in San Francisco's mid-Market called The Strand as a second stage for ACT. Her memoir, Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater, was published earlier this year.
Olympia Dukakis is a veteran actor of stage, cinema and television having performed in over 130 productions on and off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the U.S., as well as internationally. Dukakis received an Obie Award for The Marriage of Bette and Boo and A Man's a Man, and was an Academy Award-winner and a Golden Globe Award-winner for her performance in the film Moonstruck. Dukakis is a founding member of the Whole Theatre in Montclair, NJ and has been their Producing Artistic Director for 19 years. She taught acting at NYU's graduate program for fourteen years and currently teaches master classes for colleges and universities across the country. Dukakis received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Greek America Foundation and the Elliot Norton Awards, was bestowed with the National Arts Club Medal of Honor, and received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.Videos