Olympia Dukakis -- an actress, director, producer, teacher, activist and most recently, author with her best-selling memoir ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW. She received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison film MOONSTRUCK.
Theatre
Dukakis has received two OBIE Awards, for Bertolt Brecht's A MAN'S A MAN, and Christopher Durang's THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. Other notable appearances at the Public include Sam Shepard's CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS, TITUS ANDRONICUS, ELECTRA, and PEER GYNT.
Dukakis made her London debut in 1999 on stage at the Royal National Theatre in Martin Sherman's one-woman play, ROSE, to rave reviews, followed by the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's CREDIBLE WITNESS at London's Royal Court Theatre. She appeared on British television (BBC) in a made-for-TV movie A LIFE FOR A LIFE (BAFTA nomination) and on BBC Radio starring in HECUBA.
On Broadway, Dukakis starred in Martin Sherman's ROSE. As a founding member and Producing Artistic Director of the Whole Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey for 19 years (1971-1990), she directed and appeared in many productions, winning accolades time and again. In 1992, Olympia Dukakis became the recipient of the New Jersey Governor's Walt Whitman Creative Arts Award. She is also a founding member of the Actor's Company and the Charles Playhouse, both in Boston.
Dukakis has appeared in over 130 productions Off-Broadway and regionally, at venues including A.C.T., Shakespeare in the Park, Studio Arena in Albany, American Place Theatre, APA Phoenix, Circle Rep and the Williamstown Summer Theatre Festival where she also served as Associate Director. Dukakis taught Acting in the graduate school at New York University for fifteen years and currently teaches master classes at various universities and colleges throughout the country. Most recently she starred in an adaptation of THE TEMPEST called ANOTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND at the Alpine Theatre Project in Montana and directed BOTANIC GARDEN in Chicago at the Victory Gardens Theatre.
Film
Recent film releases include MONTANA AMAZON, AWAY FROM HER, THREE NEEDLES (shot in S. Africa), IN THE LAND OF WOMEN with Meg Ryan, and DAY ON FIRE. Other films include the highly acclaimed THE EVENT, THE INTENDED (shot in Malaysia and directed by Kristian Levring), THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL and THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS with Paul Reiser.