Shami Chaikin

Latest News on Shami Chaikin:
Primary Stages Launches 'OFF-CENTER' Oral History Project (Mar 13, 2017)

Photo Coverage: Primary Stages' ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Makes it's Debut (Mar 3, 2017)

Theater for the New City Appreciation Day to Be HeldToday (Jan 26, 2016)

BIO

Like her brother, Joseph Chaikin, Obie-award winning actress, Shami Chaikin has a passion for theatre. Shami appeared in legendary Open Theater productions of THE SERPENT: A CEREMONY, ANTIGONE, UNCLE VANYA, and THE DYBBUK. She also performed in the national and international tours of VIET ROCK, MUTATION SHOW (1973) – for which she won an Obie, and NIGHTWALK (1974). She was awarded a TNC Villager Award for Excellence in Theatre for her performance in Jean-Claude van Itallie’s BAG LADY (1979).
Shami has also written a play, SELMA, which premiered at the Theater for the New City, directed by Karen Ludwig.

STAGE CREDITS

Specimen Days

[Off-Off-Broadway]

Showcase, 1981

Performer

The Haggadah

[Off-Broadway]

Original Off-Broadway Production, 1979

News

Primary Stages Launches 'OFF-CENTER' Oral History Project
by BWW News Desk - Mar 13, 2017

Primary Stages has announced the launch of OFF CENTER: THE OFF-BROADWAY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT.

Photo Coverage: Primary Stages' ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Makes it's Debut
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Mar 3, 2017

The Off-Broadway Oral History Project was created to fill a gap in theater history by establishing a video archive featuring the innovative artists who transformed Off- and Off-Off-Broadway in the years after World War II.

Theater for the New City Appreciation Day to Be HeldToday
by BWW News Desk - Jan 26, 2016

In 2013, the year Theater for the New City burned its mortgage, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer declared January 26 to be Theater for the New City Appreciation Day. This year, the theater is celebrating with festivities on that day beginning at 7:00 PM. There will be a benefit bake sale, performances by Kitty Lunn and the dance/percussion troupe COBU and a special presentation by playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie.

Theater for the New City Appreciation Day to Be Held Jan 26
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 14, 2016

In 2013, the year Theater for the New City burned its mortgage, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer declared January 26 to be Theater for the New City Appreciation Day. This year, the theater is celebrating with festivities on that day beginning at 7:00 PM. There will be a benefit bake sale, performances by Kitty Lunn and the dance/percussion troupe COBU and a special presentation by playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie.

OFF-BROADWAY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Launches at Primary Stages
by Tyler Peterson - Nov 10, 2014

Primary Stages has launched the Primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral History Project, a new endeavor to capture the oral history of the New York Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theatre movement through the first-hand accounts of the pioneers who created it.

Cherry Lane's Fiordellisi to Step Down as Artistic Director in 2011
by Nicole Rosky - Dec 21, 2010

According to the NY Times, Cherry Lane Theatre's Angelina Fiordellisi, will resign as Artistic Director sometime between March and June of 2011. Additionally, Fiordellisi plans to sell the building, which has been a Greenwich Village staple since 1924, due to ongoing financial struggles.

Shami Chaikin of Famed Chaikin Family, Gets Critically Injured in Motor Accident
by Jessica Lewis - Nov 6, 2009

According to a report in the New York Post, off-Broadway star Shami Chaikin, sister of the late, famed director Joseph Chaikin, was critically injured in Greenwich Village on Bleeker Street and 8th Avenue yesterday morning when a garbage truck hit her on her mobility scooter. Chaikin, 78, who had been riding in the bicycle lane underwent surgery at St. Vincent's hospital and remains in critical condition.

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