Cast

Elizabeth Marvel

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 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

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