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BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Shailita Grant, a nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Check out what she had to say below!
Her Off-Broadway credits include: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LCT); The Philanderer (Pearl Theatre); Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice (The Public Theater); Roxy Font (FringeNYC). Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (McCarter Theater); Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre); The Laramie Project (England); Unaccompanied Minors (Vanguard Arts); The Children's Hour (Everyman Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, Into the Woods (Mainstage Theater); Body and Soul (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Film: Empire Corner, Invisible, Rehearsing a Dream (Academy Award nom., Best Documentary Short, 2006). Television: "The Good Wife." Education: The Juilliard School. Affiliated with NFAA Arts.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is now playing a strictly limited, 17-week premiere Broadway engagement at the Golden Theatre. Directed by Nicholas Martin, the production features, along with Ms. Weaver and Mr. Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Shalita Grant, Genevieve Angelson and Billy Magnussen. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike began performances on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 and officially opened on Thursday, March 14, 2013.
Click here for the complete list of nominees!
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