Advisory Board – TONY Nominated Actress
Kathleen Chalfant is an award-winning stage, film, and television actress recognized for both her high level of artistry and her deep involvement with social and cultural issues. Chalfant earned a TONY nomination for her role in the New York premiere of Angels in America, and won Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards for starring in the original Broadway production of Wit.
Chalfant’s other New York stage credits include the New York premiere of Racing Demon, M. Butterfly, Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, Talking Heads (for which she won a second OBIE Award), Great Expectations, Guantanamo, and Henry V at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Her film work includes Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity, Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco and Bill Condon’s Kinsey. Her most recent television work includes House of Cards and The Affair.
In addition to her Drama Desk, OBIE, and Lucile Lortel honors, Chalfant has received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work, as well as a 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. A founding member of the Women’s Project, Chalfant is a board member of The Vineyard Theatre and Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, and an advisory board member of the NewYork Foundation for the Arts. Chalfant has served as Artist in Residence at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University (2005 — 2006) and a Beineke Fellow at the Yale School of Drama (spring 2006, fall 2008, fall 2010). She was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Cooper Union in June 2010.
