BIOGRAPHY
Roslyn Ruff
Off-Broadway: Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Signature Theatre Co.); Killa Dilla, by OyamO, directed by André DeShields (The Working Theatre); The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem—Macbeth also played the 2003 Bonn Biennale Festival and Shakespeare Festival of Neuss in Germany); The Taming of the Shrew and the world premiere of Pudd'nhead Wilson (The Acting Company National Tour/Lucille Lortel). Regional: Two Trains Running, directed by Seret Scott (The Old Globe); the world premiere of Gee’s Bend (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Intimate Apparel and the world premiere of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, dir. Doug Hughes (Alliance Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (McCarter Theatre/American Conservatory Theatre); King Lear, dir. Hal Scott (Yale Rep); The Oedipus Plays dir. Michael Kahn (Shakespeare Theatre DC at 2003 Athens Festival in Greece; A panto: Sleeping Beauty, Once in a Lifetime, and In the Blood (People's Light & Theatre Company). Television: The Jury, The Sopranos and All My Children. Awards: 2007 OBIE Award for Seven Guitars, 2003 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for In the Blood and 1999 Buffalo Artvoice Award for Amen Corner. The American Repertory Theater Loeb Stage (as a student at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater training at Harvard University): Three Farces and a Funeral, Mother Courage (u/s), and The Island of Anyplace. A.R.T. Institute productions: The Water Hen, The Maids, Leonce and Lena, Villegatura Trilogy, and Fruits of Enlightenment (Villegatura Trilogy and Fruits of Enlightenment performed in Moscow and on tour in Germany, Italy and Switzerland).