Pamela Payton-Wright

Personal Information
Broadway: The Show-Off; Exit the King; The Cherry Orchard; Jimmy Shine; The Crucible; All Over Town; The Glass Menagerie; Romeo and Juliet; M. Butterfly; Night of the Iguana; A Streetcar Named Desire; Something Unspoken; Mourning Becomes Electra (Drama Desk Award). Off-Broadway: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in- the-Moon Marigolds (Obie, Clarence Derwent Award, Variety Critics' Poll Citation); Jesse and the Bandit Queen (Obie); The Seagull; Hamlet; The Replacement; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Richard III; Til the Rapture Comes. Regional: Most of this country's great theatres, in the works of practically everybody, including A Touch of the Poet at the Goodman Theatre for which Ms. Payton-Wright won a Joseph Jefferson Award in 1996. Film: In Dreams, The Freshman, My Little Girl, Ironweed, Starlight, Going in Style, Resurrection, At the Dark End of the Street. TV: "The Prodigal," "Brother to Dragons (PBS)," "Look Homeward Angel (Playhouse 90)," "The Adams Chronicles (PBS, Emmy nom.)," "Law & Order," "Homicide" (recurring). Education: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Special Medal, Edmund Gray Prize for High Comedy). Ms. Payton-Wright is a Fox Fellow.
 
Credits

Actor
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part III: The Story of a Family Peter Norton Space 01/26/2010 Inez (Thornton) Kirby
2 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part II: The Story of a Marriage Peter Norton Space 12/17/2009 Sarah Vaughn / Ruth Amos
3 The Orphans' Home Cycle Part I: The Story of a Childhood Peter Norton Space 11/19/2009 Mrs. Coons
4 Vieux Carre Theater 80 St. Marks 05/27/2009 Carrie
5 Some Americans Abroad Second Stage Theatre 07/24/2008 Harriet Baldwin
6 Indian Blood 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 08/09/2006 Eddie's Grandmother
7 The Day Emily Married 59E59 Theaters/ Theater A 08/03/2004 N/A
8 Duet Greenwich Street Theatre 12/04/2003 Eleonora Duse
9 Fifth of July Peter Norton Space 02/03/2003 Sally Friedman
10 What You Get and What You Expect New York Theatre Workshop 03/28/2000 Louise Erkenter
11 'Til the Rapture Comes Home Delacorte Theater 09/22/1998 Althea Dale
12 Richard II Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Margaret
13 Richard III Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Margaret
14 Young Playwrights Festival (1984) Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 05/01/1984 Mary (In the Garden)
15 Don Juan Delacorte Theater 06/25/1982 Dona Elvire
16 The Seagull Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 11/11/1980 Mash
17 Jesse and the Bandit Queen Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 10/17/1975 Belle
18 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Mercer Arts Center 04/07/1970 Tillie
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2003 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lead Actress Fifth of July Actor
2 WON 1976 Obie Award, Performance Jesse and the Bandit Queen Actor
3 WON 1970 Clarence Derwent Award The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Actor
4 WON 1970 Obie Award, Distinguished Performance The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Actor