JESSALYN GILSIG

Jessalyn Gilsig's roles at the A.R.T. have included Mariane in Tartuffe and Miranda in The Tempest. Other Loeb Stage work included The Oresteia and understudy roles in Henry V and The Cherry Orchard. Ms. Gilsig is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, where she appeared in The Trojan Women: A Love Story (under the direction of Robert Woodruff), Cymbaline (the Queen), Three Sisters (Masha), The House of Bernarda Alba (Magdalena), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), and in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and Jack, or the Submission. Other roles include Estelle in No Exit at the Morrice Theatre, Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale at Moyce Theatre, Hanna in A Shayna Maidel at Centaur Theatre, and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Marina in Pericles at Repercussion's Shakespeare in the Park. Ms. Gilsig is a native of Montreal and a graduate of McGill University.

• Read about Jessalyn and 14 other young actors starting out in New York in Open Call, a 1997 magazine article by Todd London.
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