Matty Selman is a playwright, lyricist and composer who makes his home in New York City, and the resulting work starred which Tony Award winner, an American actress?
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Matty Selman Matty Selman is a playwright, lyricist and composer who makes his home in New York City. He first came into the national spotlight when he was hand-selected by Harvard's Robert Brustein to write the lyrics to an adaptation of Lysistrata with music by HAIR composer, Galt MacDermot. The resulting work starred Tony Award winner Cherry Jones and was presented by the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard and the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. Both having lived on Staten Island, Selman and MacDermot continued their collaboration and wrote Goddess Wheel a further exploration of the Lysistrata tale, and The Tinderbox, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and set in war-torn Iraq. Prior to working with Galt MacDermot, Matty had collaborated with Agnes of God playwright, John Pielmeier on three musicals, Steeplechase the Funny Place, Young Rube, and Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup.
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Cherry Jones Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1995 revival of "The Heiress" and for the 2005 original production of "Doubt". She won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Allison Taylor on the FOX television series "24". She has also won three Drama Desk Awards.
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Meghan Andrews Meghan Andrews is an American actress and singer from New York City. She has been a studio singer and actress ever since the age of nine.
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Julie Taymor Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical "The Lion King", for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.
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Pamela Myers Pamela Myers (b. July 15, 1947 in Hamilton, Ohio) is an American actress who made her Broadway debut as Marta in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company". For this role, in which she introduced the number, "Another Hundred People," she was nominated at the 1971 Tony awards for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 1975, she appeared in the Broadway cast of the musical "Snoopy! The Musical". She has also been known for her appearances in television. She was a main supporting player on the show "Sha Na Na" (she also did the announcing) and made two turns on the show "Alice" one playing a tour guide named Bobbi who falls for Mel and playing a dental assistant, Ms. Dubro, who sang Broadway songs, rather off-key. in 2002 she appeared in the Broadway revival of "Into the Woods" as Cinderella's Stepmother.
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Jo Van Fleet Catherine Josephine Van Fleet (December 29, 1915 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress. Known primarily for playing roles older than she was, her career spanned over three decades, and she won an Academy Award as well as a Tony Award.
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Faith Prince Faith Prince (born August 6, 1957) is an American actress and singer, best known for her work on Broadway in musical theatre. She won the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical (in 1992), and received three other Tony nominations.
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Orfeh Orfeh is an American singer, songwriter and Tony-nominated actress from New York City. Orfeh and her husband, Andy Karl, performed at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series in 2016.
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Blanche Baker Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) is an American actress and filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the television mini-series "Holocaust". Baker is known for her role as Ginny Baker in "Sixteen Candles", and also starred in the title role of "Lolita" on Broadway.
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Erin Dilly Erin Dilly (born May 12, 1972) is an American actress. She is most noted for her portrayal of Truly Scrumptious in the 2005 musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
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Jessica Boevers Jessica Boevers (born August 25, 1972) is an American actress who has appeared in a number of notable Broadway productions, as well as Off-Broadway, film, and television.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph Sheryl Lee Ralph (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and activist. She made her screen debut in the 1977 comedy film "A Piece of the Action", before landing her breakthrough role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" (1981), for which she received Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Julie Wilson Julie May Wilson (October 21, 1924 – April 5, 2015) was an American singer and actress "widely regarded as the queen of cabaret". She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1989 for her performance in "Legs Diamond".
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The Gingerbread Lady The Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon, written specifically for actress Maureen Stapleton, who won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance.
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Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is an American actress. She started her career in theater, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's "Man Equals Man". She later transitioned to film acting and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in "Moonstruck". She received another Golden Globe nomination for "Sinatra", and an Emmy Award nominations for "Lucky Day", "More Tales of the City" and "Joan of Arc".
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Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as Tony Award, recognizes the excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette "Tony" Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.
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Carole Shelley Carole Shelley (born 16 August 1939) is an English actress. Among her many stage roles are the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical "Wicked". She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "The Elephant Man" in 1979.
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LaChanze Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, known professionally as LaChanze (/ləʃɑnz/; born December 16, 1961) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role in "The Color Purple".
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Mercedes Ruehl Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for "The Fisher King" and a Tony Award for her performance in "Lost in Yonkers" in 1991.
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Jackie Burns Jackie Burns is an American actress working in musical theater.
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Antonique Smith Antonique Smith (born August 11, 1983) is an American Broadway, film and television actress, and a Grammy nominated singer and songwriter.
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Nikole Beckwith Nikole Beckwith is an American actress and playwright; until 2006 she lived in Newburyport, Massachusetts where she was integral to the theater, music and art communities and in 2004 became the youngest recipient of The Johnson Award for excellence in and contributions to the arts in the Merrimack Valley.