THE QUALITY OF LIFE Wins Three 2008 L.A. Ovation Awards, Including Best Play

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announces that Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life has received three LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards for its world premiere production at the Geffen Playhouse, including the award for Best Play in an Intimate Theater.

Jane Anderson received the Best Playwriting for an Original Play award and Laurie Metcalf, who is reprising her role as Jeannette in the A.C.T. production, earned the award for Best Lead Actress in a Play.

The A.C.T. production that critics have called "tremendous" (San Francisco Examiner), "a magnetic work of theater" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "one of the most emotionally acute productions of the fall season" (San Jose Mercury News) is in its final week of performances and must close on November 23.

Along with Metcalf, the production features two members of the original cast: two time OBIE Award winner Dennis Boutsikaris and JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist, The Big Chill).  Rounding out the ensemble is Steven Culp, who most recently appeared on the A.C.T. stage in Blackbird. This daring, star-studded cast explores hot-button issues of life and death in this riveting new play. When a religious Midwestern couple, Bill and Dinah, visit their free-spirited cousin Jeannette and her husband, Neil, both couples confront loss and survival in the face of explosive circumstance.

An unforgettable, brave work of heart and humor, The Quality of Life was also nominated for four 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. The Quality of Life is produced in association with the Geffen Playhouse and Jonathan Reinis Productions.