Ellen McLaughlin
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Ellen McLaughlin’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. They include, Tongue of a Bird, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Trojan Women, Helen,
The Persians, Penelope, Ajax in Iraq, Pericles, Septimus and Clarissa, Blood Moon, and The Oresteia.
Producers include The Public Theater, National Actors’ Theater, Classic Stage Co., New York Theater Workshop, The Guthrie, The Intiman, The Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre, DC, Prototype, and The Almeida Theater in London.
Teaching: Yale School of Drama, Princeton, and Bread Loaf School of English. In Troy, Turkey, for University of Pennsylvania, in Delphi, Greece, for the National Theater of Greece. At Barnard College since 1995.
As an actor, she is best known for originating the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, appearing in all US workshops and productions through its original Broadway run.