 | ESTELLE PARSONS was last seen on Broadway in THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN for which she received her fifth Tony Award nomination. Although she has spent most of her professional life in the theater, she is most widely known for her Academy Award-winning performance in BONNIE AND CLYDE, and her decade-long, recurring role of Beverly, mother of the title character in the hit sitcom ROSEANNE. In the theater, she has appeared in plays by the great writers of our time, including Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Dario Fo, and Horton Foote. She appeared in Roberto Athayde’s classic MISS MARGARIDA’S WAY on Broadway, all over the United States and in London, Dublin, Turkey and Australia. She starred in AUGUST, OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts on Broadway for a year and on the road for a year. Recently she played in GOOD PEOPLE by David Lindsay-Abair and the Gershwin musical, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT with Matthew Broderick. Her latest New York City appearance was in Israel Horovitz’ OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES which was written for her and Judith Ivy at the Cherry Lane Theater. She appeared in the second season of Netflix’ GRACE AND FRANKIE with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. As a director, she created the New York Shakespeare Festival Players for Joseph Papp in the 1980s. For two seasons they performed SHAKESPEARE ON BROADWAY for New York City school students and their families in an effort to develop a multicultural audience for New York City. She also directed Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s SALOME; THE READING on Broadway and on tour. In the Month of March she will be presenting the Actors Studio developed THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by Stephen Adly Guirgis at La Mama Experimental Theater in the East Village. Estelle Parsons is a member of the Actors Studio and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. She has received four lifetime achievement awards: a Lilly , an Obie, a LaMama award and the Cherry Lane award. |