Who's Who data will not be updated until October, 2011.
MARIA AITKEN
MARIA AITKEN Productions in America and
the UK include the Olivier Award-winning West End production of The 39 Steps (also currently
running in Israel and Italy), Simon Gray's Japes (Bay Street Theatre), Rattigan's Man
and Boy (Duchess Theatre, London), Coward's Easy Virtue (Chichester), Vita and
Virginia (Sphinx Theatre), Lady Bracknell's Confinement (Vineyard Theatre, NY),
School for Scandal (Clwyd Theatr), As You Like It (Regent's Park), Ludlam's The
Mystery of Irma Vep (Leicester Haymarket and Ambassadors, London), Are You Sitting Comfortable
(Watford Palace), The Rivals (Court Theatre, Chicago), After the Ball Was Over (Old
Vic, London), Private Lives (Oxford Playhouse) and Happy Family (Duke of York's,
London). As a leading actress, roles include Blithe Spirit, Bedroom Farce (Royal National
Theatre); Travesties, Waste and The Happiest Days of Your Life (RSC); and West
End productions of Humble Boy, Sylvia, Hay Fever, Other People's Money, The Vortex, The Women,
Sister Mary Ignatius…, Design for Living, Private Lives and A Little Night Music.
Film credits include A Fish Called Wanda. She is a visiting teacher at BADA, Juilliard,
Yale School of Drama, NYU, the Actors Center in NYC and the Academy for Classical Acting, and also
the author of two books, A Girdle Round the Earth and Style: Acting in High Comedy.
Previously seen in
Show
Theatre
Role
39 Steps, The
Helen Hayes Theatre
Director
39 Steps, The
Cort Theatre
Director
Playbill Club Featured Offer
THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS
Save over 30% on
Aurda McDonald and Norm Lewis in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess!
