Artist Profiles
Jayne Houdyshell
JAYNE HOUDYSHELL (Carol) appeared in Well at The Public Theater, receiving a 2004 OBIE award for her performance as well as Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics nominations. Other New York credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Fighting Words at Playwrights Horizons, True Love at the Zipper Theatre and Attempts on Her Life at SoHo Rep. Regional credits include work at American Conservatory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, MacCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Wilma Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena, Geva Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre and many others. Major roles include Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest and the title role in Shirley Valentine. TV and Film credits include appearances on Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: SVU, Third Watch, Garden State, Changing Lanes, Maid in Manhattan and the upcoming Trust the Man.