Kathleen Chalfant with presenter Tonya Pinkins

2004 Recipient

Kathleen Chalfant
Kathleen Chalfant is a politically active actress who has appeared in over thirty movies, television productions, and off- and on Broadway plays. Her outstanding performances have received a Tony nomination (for Tony Kushner's Angels In America), two Drama Desk nominations and one Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and Los Angeles Ovation awards, as well as two Obie awards, including Sustained Excellence in Performance and Outstanding Performance in the off-Broadway play Wit. Kathleen is on the advisory board of THAW (Theatres Against War). She was a cast member in the reading of Lysistrata, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on the International Theatre Day of Protest against the war in Iraq in 2003. She is on the board of trustees for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.