Cherry Jones, Reed Birney & More to Join Primary Stages in Celebrating Elizabeth Wilson
Primary Stages presents, "A Celebration of Elizabeth Wilson," a memorial tribute to the Tony Award winning actress and Theatre Hall of Fame honoree, on Monday, June 29 at 2PM at NYU Skriball Center for the Performing Arts located at 566 LaGuardia Place. Cherry Jones, John Glover, Reed Birney, A.R. Gurney, Joyce Van Patten, Fritz Weaver, Casey Childs, Elizabeth Morton and other friends and colleagues will offer tributes.
The event is open to the public. To RSVP for the event, please email 629rsvp@gmail.com. Donations may be made in Ms. Wilson's memory to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS by clicking here.
Wilson made her Broadway debut in Picnic in 1952, won a Tony Award for her performance in Sticks and Bones in 1972, and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006. Elizabeth Wilson's other Broadway and off-Broadway credits includeAh, Wilderness!, Morning's at Seven; Desk Set; A Delicate Balance; Taken in Marriage; Threepenny Opera; Salonika, You Can't Take It With You; All's Well That Ends Well; Sheep on the Runway; Anteroom, and Uncle Vanya. Moviegoers have seen Elizabeth Wilson in The Graduate, Catch-22, Day of the Dolphin, Regarding Henry, Quiz Show, The Addams Family, Nobody's Fool, Grace Quigley, The Believers, Nine to Five, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Little Murders, A Child is Waiting, The Goddess, Patterns, The Birds, and most recently in Hyde Park on Hudson, among many other films.
Wilson, a beloved member of the Primary Stages family, served on the Artistic Advisory Board at the company's inception in 1984. In 1989, she joined the Primary Stages Board of Directors, where she continued to serve until her death on May 9, 2015.
"As an actress, Elizabeth Wilson was an American national treasure," says Primary Stages Founder & Executive Producer Casey Childs. "As a member of Primary Stages' board for over thirty years, Elizabeth was invaluable in her steadfast commitment to our company and our mission of developing new plays by new playwrights."
"Elizabeth Wilson devoted her life, reverently so, to her work as an actress," says actress Elizabeth Morton, a close friend of Ms. Wilson. "The theatre community was her extended family that captivated and delighted her to no end. She requested that any tribute given in her honor be held 'to celebrate a lucky life.' And so we will do just that."
