theatre

2nd annual one act fest

Directed and presented by Dinah Manoff and
Northwest Actors Lab

January 21 - 23, 2011
Friday & Saturday @ 7:30 p.m. + Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Tickets
$15 per person

Film, television, and stage actress Dinah Manoff presents a selection of innovative and challenging one act plays from playwrights, familiar and obscure. The festival showcases the very best talent Bainbridge has to offer.

About Dinah Manoff

Born in New York City to actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff, Dinah Manoff won both Theater World and Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s I Ought To Be In Pictures, and she reprised the role in the motion picture of the same title.

Manoff’s numerous theater credits include Broadway’s Leader of the Pack, Alfred and Victoria at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Kingdom of Earth at Theatre West, and Gifted Children at the JRT off Broadway. She won a Dramalogue Award (Best Director of the Year, 1993) for directing Telegrams From Heaven, a play — which she co-wrote with Dennis Bailey — based on her late father’s novel.

On television, Manoff was a series regular on Soap, and is best known for her portrayal as Richard Mulligan’s daughter “Carol Weston” the character she played for seven years on Empty Nest. Her feature film credit’s include Bloodhounds of Broadway, Child’s Play, Staying Together, Backfire, Ordinary People, Grease, I Ought To Be In Pictures, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and Bart Got a Room, which was released last spring.

Manoff has directed for television, including episodes of Sister Sister, Empty Nest, Brothers, and Movie Stars. She currently resides on Bainbridge with her husband Arthur Mortell. When she is not busy being mom to Dashiell, Desi and Oliver, she writes and teaches acting.