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On October 3, 2004, Golda’s Balcony became
the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Soon after the
Broadway run, Ms. Feldshuh brought Golda’s Balcony to Los Angeles’
Wadsworth Theatre and San Francisco’s Geary Theater in collaboration with
Richard Willis and Marty Markinson for eight sold-out weeks. Other shows on
Broadway include Cyrano (with Christopher Plummer), Rodgers And Hart and
Dreyfus In Rehearsal. Feldshuh portrayed the title roles in the Roundabout
Theatre’s She Stoops To Conquer and Mistress Of The Inn, BAM’s Three
Sisters with Rosemary Harris and Ellen Burstyn, and played in the long-running
hit The Vagina Monologues. Off-Broadway, she starred as the legendary Tallulah
Bankhead in her own Tallulah Hallelujah!, which was chosen as one of the Ten
Best Plays of the Year by USA Today. Among other roles, Ms. Feldshuh has
portrayed Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Jean Brodie in The Prime Of Miss Jean
Brodie, Sarah Bernhardt, Stella Adler, Sophie Tucker, Katharine Hepburn, three
queens of Henry VIII and nine Jews from birth to death in Off-Broadway’s
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Film audiences recognize Ms. Feldshuh from Fox Searchlight’s Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress; A Walk On The Moon with Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen; Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei, The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg, Daniel, The Idolmaker (Dir. Taylor Hackford), Brewster’s Millions, Cheaper to Keep Her, Three Little Wolfs, Friends and Family, Old Love, Nunzio, The Believer, Life On The Ledge, The Alchemist, Toll Booth (winner – Best Supporting Actress - Method Fest 2005), among others. Most recently she appeared onscreen in Lady in the Water for M. Night Shyamalan opposite Paul Giamatti and Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan. Films soon to be released include Mount Of Olives with F. Murray Abraham, O Jerusalem with Ian Holm and Tom Conti, in which she plays Golda Meir, and Love Life for Maria Schrader. On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the Czech freedom fighter Helena in Holocaust. She starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, Bill Cosby on The Cosby Mysteries and The Cosby Show and Richard Dreyfuss in The Education Of Max Bickford. In 2004 she was nominated for her second Emmy for her work on Law & Order as defense attorney Danielle Melnick. Two seasons ago her one-woman show, Tovah: Out Of Her Mind!, sold out in London’s West End at the Duke Of York’s and culminated in a symphonic concert with Billy Crystal at Los Angeles’ Royce Hall. The Boston Globe selected Tovah: Out Of Her Mind! as the best one-person show of 2000. Ms. Feldshuh created a new concert entitled Mining Golda: My Journey to Golda Meir which just played the West End at the Savoy Theatre, the Sheridan Suites in Manchester, and the Royal Armouries in Leeds. On the West Coast she starred at the Ahmanson as Regina in Lillian Hellman’s Another Part Of The Forest and served as a leading lady for Jack O’Brien and Craig Noel at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in such shows as Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Measure For Measure, The Country Wife and Tovah: A Rush Hour Revue, where she was named an Associate Artist and won two Drama Logue Awards for her Juliet and for her first one-woman show. Ms. Feldshuh, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at Yale, Cornell and New York Universities and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in June, 2005. She is a supporter of Seeds Of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict and is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitas Award and the Israel Peace Medal. Ms. Feldshuh is married to New York attorney, Andrew Harris Levy. The have two children, Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire. |
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