Cast
ELIZABETH MARVEL as Louisa May Alcott
Trained at Juilliard, with four OBIE awards, Elizabeth Marvel is among the most active and honored actors of the New York Broadway and off-Broadway stage, and appears regularly in films and on TV. Since appearing in Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Marvel has been seen on television in 30 Rock, three of the Law and Order series, and The Good Wife. A regular in Coen brothers movies, in Burn After Reading she played George Clooney’s author wife, Mattie as an adult in True Grit, and was in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. In theatre in the past few years she has taken leading roles in The Little Foxes, That Face, The Book of Grace, Fifty Words, Top Girls, and Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed Other Desert Cities.
Elizabeth is married to another distinguished actor, Bill Camp. Their son, Silas, was an honored ten month-old visitor on the set of Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.
Elizabeth Marvel Downloads:
Elizabeth Marvel New York Times Interview 3/14/2010
Elizabeth Marvel Interview With Time Out New York – Time Out New York
Jane Alexander as Ednah Cheney
Jane Alexander’s distinguished acting career (over 100 roles in theater alone) includes Tony, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award-winning performances in The Great White Hope (directed by Ed Sherin, later her husband) and Tony-nominated roles in Honour, The Sisters Rosensweig (OBIE award), The Visit, First Monday in October, Find Your Way Home, and 6 Rms Riv Vu. She was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. A four-time Oscar nominee for the films Testament, Kramer vs. Kramer, All The President’s Men, and The Great White Hope, Ms. Alexander has appeared in over 50 films, among them Brubaker, City Heat, The Cider House Rules, Fur, The Ring, The Sunshine State, and Feast for Love. She has won Emmys for her television work in Playing for Time and Warm Springs, and a Television Critic’s Circle Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, and co-starred in the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me. Jane has narrated dozens of books and documentaries and is a screenwriter, producer, and the author of Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics about her chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997. She has most recently been seen on stage in Chasing Manet, The Breath of Life, and A Moon To Dance By; on television in The Good Wife; and will appear in the upcoming film Dreamhouse.
Daniel Gerroll as Bronson Alcott
Born in London, Gerroll has appeared on television in both Great Britain and the United States, although his greater contribution has been to the stage in both countries. In New York City, he has won the Theatre World Award , the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Village Voice’s Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. His Broadway credits include Plenty, The Homecoming, High Society and Enchanted April. Gerroll’s television credits include Miami Vice, Cheers, Knots Landing, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, The Starter Wife, Ugly Betty, The Good Wife and Blue Bloods.
On film Gerroll has appeared in Chariots of Fire, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, 84 Charing Cross Road, Big Business, and The Namesake. He splits his time between New York, Los Angeles, London, and Connecticut, where he lives with his wife of twenty-five years, actress Patricia Kalember.
Dossy Peabody as Abigail Alcott
Dossy is an actor, acting teacher and private acting coach. Her teaching credits include Emerson College, Harvard College, and Huntington Theatre. Regional theatre credits include performances at Gloucester Stage, Boston Playwrights, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Film credits include Edge of Darkness, The Company Men, In Dreams, The Crucible, and Mermaids. In 1990 Dossy Peabody was honored with the first Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress, and in 2008 received the Outstanding Teacher Award in Performing Arts-Acting from Emerson College.
ADDITIONAL CAST
MOLLY SCHREIBER as
Teen Louisa
EMILY STIKEMAN as
Child Louisa
HALEY GARVIN as
Toddler Louisa
MARIANNA BASSHAM as
May Alcott
MAGGIE QUIGLEY as
Child May Alcott
LINDA AMENDOLA as
Anna Alcott
ELLEN ADAIR as
Teen Anna Alcott
ANNA FINKLESTEIN as
Teen Beth Alcott
ELEANOR FARRIS as
“Lulu” May Alcott Nieriker
LEWIS WHEELER as
Laddie
KEN CHEESEMAN as
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BENO CHAPMAN as
Henry David Thoreau
PETER HAYDU as
Charles Lane
MICHAEL PHILLIP as
John Suhre
BOB JOLLY as
Civil War Doctor
MATT PERUSSE as
Swearing Fruitlander
MIKE DELACY as
Naked Fruitlander
CRYSTAL LISBON as
Anna Weld
KARA LUND as
Dr. Rhoda Lawrence