Ep. 3 Austin Pendleton Part 1

Austin Pendleton is an actor, director, and playwright. He has
acted in about 250 movies and appeared several times in such TV
shows as  HOMICIDE, OZ, and the different versions of LAW AND
ORDER.  Onstage in  New York he has acted on Broadway
(CHOIR BOY, at Manhattan Theatre Club;  THE DIARY OF ANNE
FRANK, with Natalie Portman; and as Motel the Tailor  in the
original cast of Fiddler on the Roof); off-Broadway (Obie winner
 for THE LAST SWEET DAYS OF ISAAC; ROSMERSHOLM, at Manhattan
Theatre  Club; UP FROM PARADISE, a musical by Arthur Miller
and Stanley  Silverman, at Jewish Rep; EDUCATING RITA, with
Laurie Metcalf); and  off-off Broadway (title roles in KING
LEAR, HAMLET, RICHARD THE THIRD,  RICHARD THE SECOND; new
plays such as CITY GIRLS AND DESPERADOES, DRESS  OF FIRE,
CONSIDER THE LILIES).  As a director he has been represented
by  the premiere productions of: A THOUSAND PINES, by Matthew
Greene;  BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, by Stephen Adly Giurgis,
which went on to  win the Pulitzer Prize; FIFTY WORDS, by
Michael Weller, with Elizabeth  Marvel and Norbert Leo Butz;
Chekhov productions at Classic Stage  Company such as THREE
SISTERS (for which he won the Obie, and which  starred Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jessica Hecht), IVANOV,
 which starred Ethan Hawke, and UNCLE VANYA, with Mamie
Gummer; A LOVELY  SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR, by Tennessee
Williams, with Kristine Nielsen and  Annette O’Toole; WAR OF
THE ROSES (Shakespeare, at HB Studio); HAMLET  (also at CSC,
with Peter Sarsgaard); THE LITTLE FOXES, on Broadway, with
 Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (five Tony
nominations, one for  direction and three for actors,
including Ms. Taylor and Ms. Stapleton).   He has written
three plays: ORSON’S SHADOW (which ran off-Broadway for a
 year and was then done in London); UNCLE BOB, (which ran at
the Mint  Theatre in New York, and was then done in Paris,
translated by  Jean-Marie Besset), and BOOTH, which was done
in New York starring Frank  Langella. All of these plays have
been published and have been done  frequently around the
United States. He has taught at HB since 1969.