Mary Beth Peil created the role of
Nan Bemis in the WPA Theater production of The
Naked Eye (then called The Naked Truth). Her Broadway credits
include Anna in The King and I (Tony Award nomination); off-Broadway
she appeared as Addie in Missing Persons (1995 Obie Award), Kate in Sylvia,
Edmee in Finding the Sun, Marjorie in Birds of Paradise, Cymbeline
at the Joseph Papp Public Theater
and Desire in A Little Night Music with New York Opera Theatre. Her extensive
resident theatre credits include Gertrude in Hamlet at the Huntington
Theatre, A Month in the Country at Arena
Stage, Floyd Collins and States of Independence at the
American Music Theatre Festival, Assassins at San Jose Civic Opera,
Sweeney Todd at Paper Mill Playhouse, and Anthony and Cleopatra
and Tales of the Vienna Woods at the Actors
Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Peil has performed in national and international
tours of The King and I and The Sound of Music. Film and television
credits include Reckless, Comfortably Numb, "Law and Order" and "Summer and
Smoke" (PBS's Great Performances). She has
also sung with the Metropolitan Opera National Company, the New
York City Opera, Young Concert Artists, and the New York Philharmonic.
American Repertory Theatre