BWW Exclusive: Watch Broadway Veteran Phyllis Somerville in WGN America's OUTSIDERS

WGN America's new original scripted drama "Outsiders," premiering Tuesday, January 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT,explores the epic battle of the Farrell Clan, a tight-knit family of renegades who have lived atop the rugged Shay Mountain for over two hundred years, as they fight to defend their land and their way of life from the town below and anyone who would dare to challenge them.Below, we've got an exclusive clip, in which Asa (Joe Anderson) speaks to the leader, Lady Ray (theater vet Phyllis Somerville) about the outside world from which he's just returned. Check it out below!

"Farrell Wine," the premiere episode written by series creator Peter Mattei and directed by Adam Bernstein, is set in modern-day rural Kentucky and begins when a lost member of the Farrell clan returns home to find everything in disarray. The Farrell's are on the brink of war with the town below when a determined coal company looks to forcibly remove them from their land, and the power within the clan is in question when the presumed heir to family leadership Big Foster (David Morse) begins to openly defy the current 'Brenin,' his mother Lady Ray (PhyllisSomerville). Down in the town, Deputy Sherriff Houghton (Thomas M. Wright) struggles with his personal demons and the unenviable task of having to potentially confront the Farrells. Kevin O'Rourke ("Boardwalk Empire," "Blue Bloods") guest stars as Sheriff Weineke.

Somerville made her Broadway debut as Wilma in the 1974 musical Over Here! which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. The following year, she performed in the off-Broadway musical THE JOURNEY of Snow White as "The Witch". She appeared in the 1978 Broadway production of Once in a Lifetime. In 1983 she was the understudy for Kathy Bates in the Broadway production of Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother, and later toured in the role opposite Mercedes McCambridge. In 1984, she originated the role of GLORY is Norman's next play, Traveler in the Dark, at the American Repertory Theater.

In 1990, she originated the role of Joyce in The Sum of Us by David Stevens. In 2001, she originated the role of Hannah in the Off-Broadway musical The Spitfire Grill, a role played in the 1996 film by Ellen Burstyn. In 2009 she performed in the musical Happiness at the Lincoln Center Theatre. She has appeared in other productions Off-Broadway, as well as in regional theatre, including many roles with the Hartford Stage Company. She is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. In 2014, she appeared Off-Broadway in an experimental all-female production of I Remember Mama, alongside Rita Gardner, Heather MacRae and Barbara Barrie.