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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Iconic Broadway, Movie and TV Star, Joanna Gleason
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s guest, Joanna Gleason, is a highly acclaimed, multi-award winning actress, writer and director whose stellar career and body of work has spanned 5 decades and is still going stronger than ever.
On the big screen, you’ve seen her in many great movies including “Hannah and her Sisters”, “Heartburn”, “Crimes and Misdemeanours”, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, “Boogie Nights”, “The Wedding Planner”, “Sex and the City”, “The Women”, “Last Vegas” and many more.
On television, we remember her as “Morgan Winslow” on “Hello Larry”, “Nadine Berkus” in “Love and War”, “Charlotte St. John” in “Oh Baby”, “Connie Randolph” in Bette Midler’s TV sitcom entitled, “Bette”, “Attorney Jordan Kendall” on “The West Wing”, and “Veronica” in “Sensitive Skin”, in addition to a whole slew of guest starring roles in many TV shows including “Diff’rent Strokes”, “ER”, “Murphy Brown”, “Friends”, “King of the Hill”, “The Good Wife”, “The Affair” and “The Good Fight”, to name only a few.
And on the stage, our guest has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows including “I Love My Wife”, for which she won a Theatre World Award, “Social Security”, for which she won a Drama Desk Award, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg”, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, and of course, her unforgettable performance in “Into the Woods”, for which she WON a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Musical. And off Broadway, she won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “It’s Only a Play”, and she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in “Sons of the Prophet”. She’s also appeared in many other stage productions including “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Hamlet”, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”, and “The Normal Heart”, to name only a few.
And most recently, our guest has written and directed an excellent feature film called “The Grotto”, which has already won a number of prestigious film festival awards. The movie tells the story of a woman in the midst of an emotional upheaval, who inherits a half-interest in a struggling nightclub, where she encounters eccentric performers and discovers a heartbreaking secret.
The movie will be released in theatres and on major streaming platforms in the very near future, so please keep an eye out for it. Our guest is currently in New York preparing to star in the World Premiere of Joshua Harmon’s play entitled, “We Had a World”, which will be presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the New York City Center Stage 2 from February 25 to April 13, 2025. Our guest has taken time out of her very busy rehearsal schedule to speak with me today.
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