Cast & Creative
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams has made over thirty films, including Poltergeist, The Big Chill, Kramer vs. Kramer, Switch, Stir Crazy, American Dreamer, Fever Pitch, and The Big Year. Her television credits include series leads, in Payne with John Laroquette , John Grisham’s The Client, Your Family or Mine with Richard Dreyfuss, and recurring roles on Private Practice, Marry Me, among many others. Television movies include Adam, Baby M, My Name is Bill W. with James Garner, The Day After, and others. In New York theatre, she has starred in Annie Baker’s Body Awareness at the Atlantic, Last Dance at Manhattan Theatre Club, Moonchildren, Lady House Blues, A Couple of White Chicks, Gardenia by John Guare. Her regional credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (McCarter), Idiot’s Delight with Stacy Keach ( Kennedy Center), Antony and Cleopatra (The Old Globe), among many. In Los Angeles, she has starred in Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life with Laurie Metcalf at the Geffen, Other Desert Cities (Taper,) The Night is a Child (Pasadena Playhouse), and The Fall to Earth (Odyssey). Ms Williams has been nominated for three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and an Oscar for directing the short film On Hope.
Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin is well known to television audiences as Buddy Dyker in the Netflix series Ozark. He made his New York debut in 1963 in James Saunders’ Next Time I’ll Sing To You, with James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons at the Phoenix Theatre. Broadway credits include Hedda Gabler, The Price, The Visit, A Lesson From Aloes, Watch On The Rhine and Off-Broadway: Hamlet (three times) Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home and Steve Tesich’s Arts And Leisure (Playwrights Horizons) in addition to Lanford Wilson’s Raindance at the Signature Theatre. Recent stage appearances: The Plot by Will Eno (Yale Rep Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Bay Street Theater); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Court Theatre, Chicago); Death Of A Salesman (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Hamlet (CSC) and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Chautauqua Festival). Mr. Yulin has extensive credits as a director. One of his award winning productions, Horton Foote’s The Trip To Bountiful with Lois Smith and Hallie Foote played an extended run at the Signature Theatre in New York and subsequently moved to Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. He has appeared in over 100 television and film roles including Scarface (Brian de Palma), Multiplicity (Harold Ramis) and most recently, All Square (John Hyams), Wanderland (Josh Klausner), The Sounding (Catherine Earton), Norman (Joseph Cedar) and The Family Fang (Jason Bateman).
Jeanne Lauren Smith
NY credits: Electronic City (Falk Richter, dir. Ildiko Nemeth, NYIT Award Outstanding Performance Art Production), In The Bleak Midwinter (Dorothy Lyman, dir. Katie McHugh), Dead Therapist (Cate Allen, dir. Emily Tetzlaff), According to the Chorus (Arlene Hutton, dir. Christopher Goutman) Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide (Charles Ludlam, dir. Everett Quinton) A Rage in Tenure (writer/director Dorothy Lyman) and Soft Landing (San Miguel de Allende, dir. John Tillinger). Jeanne has performed throughout NYC at New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, NYU Gallatin Theatre Lab, Theatre for the New City, New Stage Performance Space, Columbia Stages, Governor's Island, Chashama's Performance Window, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Creative Time and Dixon Place. Jeanne is a Marymount Manhattan graduate.
Dorothy Lyman (Playwright)
Dorothy Lyman is a two-time Emmy© Award-winning actress for her work as Opal Gardner on All My Children and is widely known for her co-starring role on Mama’s Family, alongside Vicki Lawrence and Carol Burnett. She recently recurred on the HBO series Divorce, playing the mother to Sarah Jessica Parker in her Golden Globe-nominated performance, and has appeared on the silver screen in Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, and the Johnny Depp vehicle Blow, among many others. In addition to her numerous film and television appearances, Ms. Lyman also directed 75 episodes of the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny. As a playwright, her other plays Enemy (an adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People), A Rage in Tenure, and Soft Landing (directed by John Tillinger) were all developed and produced by Players Workshop in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In The Bleak Midwinter, the prequel to We Have To Hurry was produced in New York City and Westchester in 2019. Ms. Lyman’s directing career began in 1980 when she produced and directed the original off-Broadway production of A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking starring Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, and the subsequent national tour starring Elizabeth Ashley and Susan Anton. Her feature films, The Northern Kingdom and Split Ends, are available on Netflix.
Patricia Vanstone (Director)
Patricia Vanstone is an award-winning Canadian director, performer, and dramaturge. Equally at home in dramatic and musical genres, she has acted in or directed over 150 productions in Canada and internationally. Her production of BEO’S BEDROOM won a Dora Award. Her performance in the Bop musical GIRLS IN THE GANG received a Dora nomination. She is the recipient of The St Catharines Arts Award for Established Artist. In 2016, she co-founded The Foster Festival in Niagara, Canada. As Artistic Director, she produced 4 wildly successful seasons and directed 7 world premieres. A number of her productions made Stage-Door.com’s top 10 lists, including OLD LOVE. It was presented at Players Workshop in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where Vanstone also performed in their Diez Minutos Festival under the direction of Dorothy Lyman.