ANITA GILLETTE
Born in, Baltimore Maryland, Gillette studied at the Peabody Conservatory and came to Broadway when she was a teenager, making her debut in Gypsy. Her first television appearance would come on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963.
Gillette's roles in the 1970s included starring on Me and The Chimp with Ted Bessell and TV version of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice with a then-unknown Robert Urich and, as her daughter, a young Jodie Foster. Returning to Broadway, Gillette would garner a Tony Award nomination and L.A Drama Critics Award for her work in 1977's Chapter Two, a role she held while commuting to Los Angeles where she had a role on Norman Lear's All That Glitters.
The 1980s marked Gillette's transition from Broadway and television into that of a character film actress. Prior to this transition, she had sizeable television roles as Nancy Baxter on the first season of the national run of The Baxter’s, W. Emily Hanover on the last season of Quincy M.E., and a role on Search for Tomorrow at the end of that series long run as well as the early David Chase series Almost Grown. During this period, Gillette was a regular on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Gillette transitioned to film with a variety of notable roles such as that of Mona in 1987's Moonstruck, Elaine in 1995’s Boy’s on the Side, and Lanie in 2005’s Great New Wonderful. She Charmed audiences in Shall we Dance?, opposite Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. She portrayed Miss Mitzi, the lonely drunk, yet sweet, dance instructor at her struggling studio. Anita has just finished filming Hiding Victoria where she stars as Althea Jaffery. This film is do out later this year or early 2008. Many of these roles have had her as an on-screen mother to characters played by notable actors such as Jennifer Aniston's mother in She's The One, Bill Murray's mother in Larger Than Life, and Jack Black's mother in Bob Roberts.
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JOHN DEVANEY
John Devaney is a seasoned stage actor. He has acted with The Huntington Theatre Co., New Rep, Worcester Foothills, American Repertory, Wheelock Family, Boston Theatre Works, The Folger Shakespeare Group and the Proposition among others. He has appeared locally (Nantucket Mass) with Actors Theatre and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. He is a nationally know Artist and his works are shown at the Old South Wharf Gallery on Nantucket. He resides in New York and Nantucket
CAITLIN McDONOUGH-THEYER
Caitlin graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and Bard College. She has worked for two years with Richard Foreman, performing in Panic: How To Be Happy, which traveled to Vienna, and Zurich, as well as, Zomboid, Film Project #1. Previous to "Zomboid," she worked with Pavol Liska in a new adaptation of Antigone, playing the title role, and then went to Classic Stage with Liska to work on Kasimir & Karoline, a play by Odin Von Hargarth. Other New York credits include, Miss Julie, at the American Theater of Actors, Rosa Rugosa, directed by Terry Hayden at Center Stage, and Stars in Her Eyes, for the Brick Theater's Sell-Out Festival, and is now moving to performance space, ARS NOVA.
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