Cast & Creative (May 2021)

Kathleen Chalfant as Margaret

BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: A Woman of the World, Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Tales from Red Vienna, Miss Ovington &  Dr. Dubois, Talking Heads (Obie Award), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). OTHER NY CREDITS: The Vagina Monologues, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Endgame, Sister Mary Ignatius..., The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador. FILM: Isn’t it Delicious?, R.I.P.D., The Bath, In Bed With Ulysses, Lillian, Duplicity, The People Speak, Lackawanna Blues, Perfect Stranger, Dark Water, Kinsey, Laramie Project, Random Hearts, A Price Below Rubies, Murder and Murder. SELECT TELEVISION Recurring on The Affair, The Strain, The Americans, House of Cards, Rescue Me, The Book of Daniel, The Guardian, Law and Order, One Life to Live; Madam Secretary, High Maintenance, Elementary, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight  (HBO), Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime), Voices from the White House, (PBS). AWARDS: 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women. 2018 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work and holds an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Cooper Union.

Elliott Gould as Gil

Elliott Gould is a prolific American actor and producer, who began his acting career on Broadway. His portrayal of Trapper John in Robert Altman‘s feature film M*A*S*H earned him a Golden Globe nomination and landed him on the cover of TIME magazine, calling him a “star for an uptight age. “Nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, other memorable roles include playing Philip Marlowe in Altman's The Long Goodbye and being the first American actor to work with renowned director Ingmar Bergman when he starred in The Touch. He has since appeared in noteworthy roles in numerous feature films including Contagion, American History X, Bugsy, Meet Ruby Sparks, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, The Lady Vanishes, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark, and portrayed Reuben Tishkoff in the popular trilogy of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen. On television, a new generation became enthusiastic fans when Mr. Gould appeared as Jack Geller, Ross and Monica’s father, on the wildly popular sitcom Friends. His other TV work includes Ray Donovan, the sitcom Mulaney, Doubt, 9 JKL, Grace and Frankie, and The Kominsky Method. He is part of an elite club having the distinction of having hosted Saturday Night Live six times. Gould produced several films including Woody Allen’s, Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, and is in development on several new projects.

Jeanne Lauren Smith as Meg

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. In addition to her numerous film and television appearances, Ms. Lyman also directed 75 episodes of the Fran Drescher sitcom “The Nanny.” Her other plays are Enemy (an adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People), A Rage in Tenure and Soft Landing (directed by John Tillinger) 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, and subsequent tour, 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 is 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.