Kathleen Chalfant (love) is well known to New York and worldwide audiences for her portrayal of Vivian Bearing in the Off-Broadway, Los Angeles and London productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. For her performance, Chalfant received the Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, LA Ovation Award, Connecticut Critics Circle Award, as well as her second Obie Award. She was also acclaimed for her Tony-nominated performance as Hannah Pitt in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America on Broadway.

Chalfant stars in the feature film A Perfect Stranger opposite Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, as well as in The Last New Yorker. Other films include Kinsey, Lackawanna Blues, Boaz Yakin’s A Price Below Rubies, Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco, and many more.

In 1996, she made her Shakespearean debut in the Public Theater’s Henry V, where her Mistress Quickly garnered her a 1996 Calloway Award for Best Classical Performance of the Year. Some of her other stage credits include Guantanamo; 5 by Tenn at the Kennedy Center and Manhattan Theatre Club; The Last Letter with TFNA; Far Away at New York Theatre Workshop; the premiere of David Hare’s play Racing Down at Lincoln Center; M. Butterfly opposite John Lithgow; and many more.

"...SPALDING GRAY COMES BACK TO LIFE IN THIS WONDERFUL EVENING... HIS TALENT, HIS LOVE, HIS DESPAIR, ALL IN ONE HEARTBREAKING PACKAGE."  -BETTE MIDLER