Artist

Elaine Stritch is best known as a brash, incorrigible scene-stealer now entering her sixth decade in an impressive career. She has worked in film and television but began and has spent much of her career on stage. She studied theatre at the New School in Manhattan and has collected a number of accolades on both Broadway and London's West End including four Tony nominations: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for William Inge's Bus Stop (1956); as Best Actress (Musical) for Sail Away (1962), for Company (1971) and as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (1996). Ms. Stritch's most recent performance in her one-woman musical memoir Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (2002) earned her the Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Circle Critics and New York Drama Critics awards and a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award.