Julie Harris Honored at TACT Gala March 3 with Daly, Danner, Huffman

The Actors Company Theatre/TACT will celebrate its 15th Anniversary with a Crystal Gala honoring renowned star of stage and screen, Julie Harris.  The star-studded event will be held on Monday, March 3 at the historic Hudson Theatre, beginning at 6:30PM with cocktails, dinner, a silent and live auction and a performance including a tribute to Ms. Harris. 

Joining the company to salute Ms. Harris will be some of the theatre's most illustrious stars, including: F. Murray Abraham, Tyne Daly, Blythe Danner, Rosemary Harris, Cady Huffman, Dana Ivey, Ann Meara, Lee Roy Reams, Rufus Sewell, K.T. Sullivan, Jerry Stiller, and others to be announced.

Julie Harris was born Julia Ann Harris in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan on December 2nd, 1925. She moved to New York and became the youngest student ever accepted to Yale School of Drama. Before she had finished out the year at Yale, she was cast in her Broadway debut, It's a Gift (1945). She made several other Broadway appearances in the 1940s while studying at The Actor's Studio. Her breakout performance was in 1951 as the eleven-year old tomboy Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, directed by Harold Clurman and was cast in the film version the following year, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. She earned her first of ten Tony nominations as Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, a role she would also reprise on film. She won another Tony in 1955 as Joan of Arc in The Lark. She began an equally lauded career in television with her appearance in "The United States Steel Hour" in 1956 which earned her the first of eleven Emmy nominations. She won the Emmy for her performance as Bridgid Mary in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Little Moon of Alban, a role she would reprise on Broadway. In 1958, she starred alongside James Dean in Elia Kazan's East of Eden. She has more Tony wins and nominations than any other performer (10 nominations and five wins.) She survived a bought with breast cancer in 1981, a serious head injury requiring surgery in 1999 and a stroke in 2001. She has appeared in over thirty Broadway productions

The Hudson Theatre is located at 145 West 44th Street. Tickets are: $375 and $175

Please call 212/645-8228. For more information of TACT please visit www.tactnyc.org