Austin Pendleton has just now been seen on Broadway in The Minutes, by Tracy Letts, a play that will hopefully re-open in the not-too-distant future. Other Broadway appearances have been in Choir Boy (MTC), The Diary of Anne Frank (with Natalie Portman and Linda Lavin), Mike Nichols’ revival of The Little Foxes, Hail Scrawdyke (for which, under the direction of Alan Arkin, he won the Clarence Derwent Award) and Fiddler on the Roof (in the original cast, as Motel, the Tailor). He has acted extensively off-Broadway too: The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (by Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford, the musical for which he won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award), Up from Paradise (the musical by Arthur Miller and Stanley Silverman), and many other shows, and off-off-Broadway, where he has played, for instance, “King Lear,” “Richard the Third,” and “Hamlet.” He has acted in over 300 movies, and on TV in recurring roles in Oz, Homicide, and Law and Order. As a director, he has worked on Broadway (Tony nomination for directing The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Taylor), off-Broadway (several recent productions of Chekhov at CSC, including Three Sisters, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, for which he won an Obie, as well as Hamlet, starring Mr. Sarsgaard), and extensively in regional theaters, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where he is a member of the Ensemble. He has written three plays (Orson’s Shadow, Uncle Bob, Booth), all produced off-Broadway as well as extensively in regional theater and in Europe, as well as the libretto for A Minster’s Wife, adapted from Shaw’s play Candida and produced at Lincoln Center at the Newhouse Theater, as well as regionally. He teaches acting at HB Studio in New York City.
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TELEVISION: The Good Fight, New Amsterdam, Alex Inc, Difficult People, Billions, Humane Resource, Cupid, Life on Mars, Joan of Arcadia, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, 100 Centre St., West Wing, Touched By an Angel, Oz, Homicide, Tracey Takes On, The Practice, Frasier, Fired Up, St. Elsewhere.
FILM: Fall’s Virtue, Ball & Vase, The Reunion, The Mimic, Sunset, Finding Dory, She’s Funny That Way, Hair Brained, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Lovely Surprise, 5-25-77, The Town that Banned Christmas, Christmas with the Kranks, Skipping Christmas, Piccadilly Jim, Southside, Uptown Girls, Finding Nemo, Manna From Heaven, Wishcraft, A Beautiful Mind, Chelsea Walls, Fast Food Fast Women, Shiny New Enemies, Joe the King, Last Word on Paradise, Men of Means, Charlie Hoebocken, Amistad, The Fanatics, Trial & Error, Too Much, The Associate, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Two Days in the Valley, SGT. Bilko, Home for the Holidays, Guarding Tess, Searching for Bobby Fischer, My Boyfriend’s Back, My Cousin Vinny, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Short Circuit, Simon, Furst Family, Starting Over, The Muppet Movie, The Front Page, What’s Up Doc, Catch-22, Game Change, Homicide: The Movie, Liberty! The American Revolution, Don’t Drink the Water.
PILOTS: Sick in the Head, Johnny X, Island Fever.
BROADWAY/OFF-BROADWAY: The Night of the Iguana, The Minutes, Life Sucks, Choir Boy, Straight White Men, Diary of Anne Frank, Tartuffe, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, The Little Foxes, Fiddler on the Roof, Oh Dad Poor Dad.
OTHER THEATRE: Rosmersholm, Romeo and Juliet, An Oak Tree, Mother Courage and Her Children, Finian’s Rainbow, Hamlet, Richard III, Educating Rita, Doubles.