BRENDA PRESSLEY (Olivia Shaw) Broadway: Dreamgirls (original company), Cats, The Moony Shapiro Songbook. Off-Broadway: The First Breeze of Summer, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?, Seven Guitars, Fran’s Bed, Goodwill, Marvin’s Room, And the World Goes Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Outer Critics Circle Award), Blues in the Night. Regional: Sundance Theatre Lab 2002, The Old Settler (Freedom Theatre, 2000 Barrymore Award, Best Actress; McCarter Theatre world premiere; and The Long Wharf Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Cincinnati Play House, the Old Globe), Jar the Floor (Syracuse Stage), A Raisin in the Sun (Ford’s Theatre), To Be Young Gifted and Black (The Kennedy Center). Film: 16 Blocks, Cradle Will Rock (written and directed by Tim Robbins), Twisted, It Could Happen to You. Television: “Law & Order,” “Deadline,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “New York Undercover,” “Daddy’s Girl,” “Harambee!,” “Educating Matt Waters,” HBO’s “LifeStories,” “Brewster’s Place” (with Oprah Winfrey).
BRENDA PRESSLEY (Olivia Shaw) Broadway: Dreamgirls (original company), Cats, The Moony Shapiro Songbook. Off-Broadway: The First Breeze of Summer, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?, Seven Guitars, Fran’s Bed, Goodwill, Marvin’s Room, And the World Goes Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Outer Critics Circle Award), Blues in the Night. Regional: Sundance Theatre Lab 2002, The Old Settler (Freedom Theatre, 2000 Barrymore Award, Best Actress; McCarter Theatre world premiere; and The Long Wharf Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Cincinnati Play House, the Old Globe), Jar the Floor (Syracuse Stage), A Raisin in the Sun (Ford’s Theatre), To Be Young Gifted and Black (The Kennedy Center). Film: 16 Blocks, Cradle Will Rock (written and directed by Tim Robbins), Twisted, It Could Happen to You. Television: “Law & Order,” “Deadline,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “New York Undercover,” “Daddy’s Girl,” “Harambee!,” “Educating Matt Waters,” HBO’s “LifeStories,” “Brewster’s Place” (with Oprah Winfrey).