Sarah Marshall (American stage actress)

Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Sarah Marshall (born 1955) is a stage actress working primarily in the Washington, D.C. region. She has been nominated for the Helen Hayes Award seventeen times and won the award in 1989.<ref name="hh">Helen Hayes Awards</ref>

Early life and education

Marshall was born in Kansas, the fifth of eight children in a Catholic military family.<ref name="DR">Richards, David. "Sarah Marshall, From Myth to 'Monkey'; The Wooley Mammoth Actress and Her Rise from Character to Star." The Washington Post, 1990-01-14, p. G1.</ref> During her childhood, she lived in several places in the South.<ref name="DR"/> Most of her family currently resides in the south.<ref name="DD">Davis, Daryl. "Miss Marshall's Ways." Washington Theater Review, summer 2005, p. 44-49.</ref>

As a child, Marshall and her siblings produced plays at their home.<ref name="DR"/> Marshall decided to become an actress in the seventh grade after winning a citywide monologue competition in Huntsville, Alabama.<ref name="DR"/> Playing the comedic role of the maid in her middle school's production of Junior Miss led her to focus on character acting.<ref name="DR"/> She acted throughout high school and college, graduating from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in theater.<ref name="DR"/>

Career beginnings

Marshall moved to Washington with the intent of attending graduate school at Catholic University or American University, but enrolled in classes at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory instead, working as a maid to support herself.<ref name="DR"/> During the 1980s, Marshall performed in nine Studio Theatre productions, including a 1983 role as Jo, a pregnant waif in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, termed Marshall's "breakthrough performance" by friend and Studio Theatre Artistic Director Joy Zinoman.<ref name="DR"/><ref name="DD"/> She also drew attention for her roles in Studio Theatre's Miss Margarida's Way and My Sister is in This House, for which she received her first Helen Hayes nomination.<ref name="hh"/><ref name="DR"/>

Other productions in which she performed during that time included Briar Patch at Arena Stage; The Stick Wife at Horizons; The Vampires at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; and Baby with the Bathwater at Round House Theatre in 1989, for which she won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Production.<ref name="hh"/><ref name="DR"/> She joined the Woolly Mammoth acting company in 1989.<ref name="DR"/>

Recent performances

Marshall's recent productions include Dead Man's Cell Phone at Woolly Mammoth in 2007;<ref>Marks, Peter. "'Dead Man's Cell Phone,' Answering Some Biggies." The Washington Post, 2007-06-18, p. C1.</ref> Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at Woolly Mammoth<ref>Marks, Peter. "Mixed Nuts, All Shook Up; 'Chinese Elvis' a Lively Comedy of Canned Laughs." The Washington Post, 2006-11-14, p. C1.</ref> and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, featuring Marshall in the title role, at Studio Theatre in 2006;<ref>Marks, Peter. "Studio's 'Jean Brodie': Niceness Doesn't Count." The Washington Post, 2006-03-14, p. C5.</ref> and Camille at Round House Theatre<ref>Marks, Peter. "Robinson Bows In With a Powerful 'Camille'." The Washington Post, 2005-09-21, p. C12.</ref> and The Clean House at Woolly Mammoth in 2005, for which she received her fourteenth Helen Hayes nomination.<ref name="hh"/><ref>Marks, Peter. "'Clean House': A Lemon-Fresh Shine." The Washington Post, 2005-07-19, p. C1.</ref>

Other activities

Marshall began teaching acting at Round House Theater in 1985.<ref name="DD"/> Since 1988, she has taught at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.<ref name="DR"/> She is also an adjunct drama instructor at Georgetown University.<ref name="DD"/> In her spare time, Marshall has dabbled in crafts such as drawing, metal work and pottery.<ref name="DD"/>

Helen Hayes Awards

1985	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Production
	My Sister in This House, The Studio Theatre	Nomination
1989	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production
	Baby With the Bathwater, Round House Theatre	Award Recipient
1990	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production
	Dead Monkey, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination
1990	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production
	Briar Patch, Arena Stage	Nomination
1992	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production
	When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, The Studio Theatre	Nomination
1993	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Elektra, Round House Theatre	Nomination
1994	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Criminals in Love, Round House Theatre	Nomination
1996	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical
	Wanted, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination
1996	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Escape from Happiness, Round House Theatre	Nomination
1998	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Sylvia, The Studio Theatre	Nomination
2000	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Dead Monkey, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination
2000	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
	How I Learned to Drive, Arena Stage	Nomination
2001	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
	Betty's Summer Vacation, The Studio Theatre	Nomination
2006	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
	The Clean House, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination
2008	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
	As You Like It, Folger Theatre	Nomination
2009	Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
	Boom, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination (award not yet announced)
2009	Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play
	Maria/Stuart, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company	Nomination (award not yet announced)

References

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