ROSLYN RUFF

Off-Broadway: Seven Guitars dir. Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Signature Theatre Co.) Killa Dilla by OyamO dir. André DeShields (The Working Theatre); The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem – Macbeth also played the 2003 Bonn Biennale Festival and Shakespeare Festival of Neuss in Germany); Pudd'nhead Wilson (world premiere) and The Taming of the Shrew (The Acting Company National Tour/Lucille Lortel). Regional:  Two Trains Running dir. Seret Scott (The Old Globe); Gee’s Bend – world premiere (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Intimate Apparel and the world premiere of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, dir. Doug Hughes (Alliance Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (McCarter Theatre/American Conservatory Theatre); King Lear, dir. Hal Scott (Yale Rep); The Oedipus Plays dir. Michael Kahn (Shakespeare Theatre DC at 2003 Athens Festival in Greece; A panto: Sleeping Beauty, Once in a Lifetime and In the Blood (People's Light & Theatre Co.). Television: The Jury, The Sopranos and All My Children.  Awards: 2007 OBIE Award for Seven Guitars, 2003 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for In the Blood and 1999 Buffalo Artvoice Award for Amen Corner.   As a student on the A.R.T. Loeb Stage: Three Farces and a Funeral, Mother Courage (u/s) and The Island of Anyplace.  Institute: The Water Hen, The Maids, Leonce and Lena; Villegatura Trilogy and Fruits of Enlightenment performed in Moscow and on tour in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. 

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