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BIO

Originally from Mississippi, Beth received a degree in Broadcast Journalism from The University of Southern Mississippi. She was hired by CNN in Atlanta and later transferred to their offices in New York where she worked while attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her qualms about this career change were allayed on the day of the AADA graduation when she was cast in the touring company of the off-Broadway hit The Taffetas. Beth quickly became acclimated to the life of a professional actress: flying first class from gig to gig, staying in 5-star hotels and opening for Ray Charles in top-flight venues. 



        In the following years she learned it ain't all 5-star hotels; sometimes it's no-star hotels, but it's the work that matters. Steady employment in the theatre and small films and TV was juggled with three years of writing for, and performing with, the “smart and edgy” (according to the N.Y. Post) Third Rail Comedy, the House Sketch Group for Gotham Comedy Club.

         Beth's self-revealing one-woman show Impaled on a Magnolia, (co-written with playwright/lyricist Randy Buck) was critically acclaimed. Rex Reed, in The Observer insightfully reported that it was: “Clever and hilarious. Beth Glover is a formidable cross between Marilyn Monroe and Fannie Flagg.”

         Beth was part of the Lucille Lortel Award Winning revival of the play Counselor-at-Law. In the same year she was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for her performance in the Looking Glass Theatre's production The Fall. She was part of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Nominated Revival of Take Me Along at Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC in the role of Lily. Beth was voted Best Leading Actress in a Musical by The San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle for her portrayal of Edith Bouvier Beale and Little Edie Beale in the Regional Theatre Premiere of Grey Gardens at TheatreWorks of Palo Alto, California.

        Most recent first national tours: All Shook Up as Mayor Matilda and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella as the Wicked Step Mother, Madame. Most recent films: Immigration Tango and Beyond the Night. 

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STAGE CREDITS

[US Tour]
First National Tour, 2014
Madame

Madame [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2011
Jessica/Vanessa/Carol (Understudy)

[Off-Broadway]
2008
Lily

[US Tour]
National Tour, 2006
Mayor Matilda Hyde

[Off-Broadway]
2005
Cora Simon

[Regional (US)]
Goodspeed Production, 2000
Ensemble/Other Roles

[Off-Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1994
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
1993
Ginger

Off-Broadway



Counsellor-at-Law (Lortel Best Revival) Cora (opp. John Rubinstein) Peccadillo Theatre



Take Me Along (Drama Desk Nominated) Lily (opp. Don Stephenson) Irish Rep.



Primetime Prophet   Ginger   Players Theatre



Off-off Broadway



Glimpses of the Moon   Ellie  The Oak Room/ Marc Bruni, Director



Heartbreak   Pamela    Lark Theatre Co.



The Fall        Mary (IT Best Feat. Actress Nom.)   The Looking Glass Theatre



Regional Theatre



Grey Gardens (1st Reg. Production) Big Edie/Little Edie (BACC Best Actress). TheatreWorks, Silicon Valley



Senior Living  (World Premiere)        Lily/Denise/Carol                                      Portland Stage/ Judith Ivey, Dir



Native Gardens                                 Virginia                                                        Virginia Stage 



The Passion of Teresa Rae King  (World Premiere)   Mamie                               Triad Stage 



Analog & Vinyl (World Premiere).  Satan                                                Weston Playhouse



As You Like It                    Audrey                                                           Shakespeare Th. Co., DC/ Maria Aitken



The Good Girl Is Gone   (World Premiere)   Ellie (Daily Record Award)          Playwrights Theatre, NJ



The Book of Candy. (World Premiere)     Cantor                                    Playwrights Theatre, NJ



High Button Shoes                     Mama                                                 Goodspeed Opera House



Good News                              Prof. Kenyon                                        Goodspeed Opera House



 



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Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, a nonprofit theatre company now in its 15th season, announces a unique-and unpredictable--evening of readings of new commissioned short plays about Charles Dickens on Saturday, December 15 at Downtown Arts, 70 E 4th Street, NYC. The world-premiere plays will be read impromptu by a group of assembled actors whose roles will be determined, regardless of age or gender, by drawing names out of a hat. Actors will be given their script and 5 minutes of prep time.
Triad Stage Presents World Premiere of Southern Noir THE PASSION OF TERESA RAE KING

Triad Stage's Founding Artistic Director Preston Lane continues to mine the dramatically rich fictional town of Hawboro, North Carolina in this explosive World Premiere drama. Loosely based on Emile Zola's Therese Raquin, Playwright/Director Lane's modern tale focuses on Teresa Rae King, a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage; disappointed by her husband and terrorized by her gorgon mother-in-law, Teresa Rae finally discovers true passion in the arms of Levon, an ex-con. Their plot to free Teresa Rae produces harrowing results pushing them to madness. Sarah Hankins (The Queen's Company) leads the cast of seven -- Melat Ayalew, Patrick M. Ball (Sex with Strangers), Madeline Fox, Beth Glover (Cinderella, Take Me Along), Lorin Kaplan and Stanton Nash (Wicked).
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Photo Coverage: The York Theatre Musicals in Mufti Series Presents-SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

Are subways really for sleeping? The York Theatre Company presents the 1961 Broadway musical Subways Are for Sleeping with music byJule Styne and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, suggested by the book by Edmund G. Love, the final show in the Winter 2018 Musicals in Mufti Series celebrating the work of the legendary composer Jule Styne. Directed by Stuart Ross, and with music direction by David Hancock Turner, the cast features Karl Josef Co, David Engel, Beth Glover, David Josefsberg, Alyse Alan Louis, Kathryn McCreary, Gerry McIntyre, Gina Milo, Eric William Morris, and Kilty Reidy.
Photo Flash: First Look at York Theatre Company's SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

Are subways really for sleeping? The York Theatre Company presents the 1961 Broadway musical Subways Are for Sleeping with music by Jule Styne and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, suggested by the book by Edmund G. Love, the final show in the Winter 2018 Musicals in Mufti Series celebrating the work of the legendary composer Jule Styne. Directed by Stuart Ross, and with music direction by David Hancock Turner, the cast features Karl Josef Co, David Engel, Beth Glover, David Josefsberg, Alyse Alan Louis, Kathryn McCreary, Gerry McIntyre, Gina Milo, Eric William Morris, and Kilty Reidy.
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

Are subways really for sleeping? The York Theatre Company presents the 1961 Broadway musical Subways Are for Sleeping with music byJule Styne and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, suggested by the book by Edmund G. Love, the final show in the Winter 2018 Musicals in Mufti Series celebrating the work of the legendary composer Jule Styne. Directed by Stuart Ross, and with music direction by David Hancock Turner, the cast features Karl Josef Co, David Engel, Beth Glover, David Josefsberg, Alyse Alan Louis, Kathryn McCreary, Gerry McIntyre, Gina Milo, Eric William Morris, and Kilty Reidy.
York Theatre Company Announces Cast For The Musicals In Mufti Presentation Of SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

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It's like 'Modern Family' meets wedding party drama when Saugatuck Center for the Arts' Mason Street Warehouse (MSW) theatre company presents It Shoulda Been You, a musical comedy about an unforgettable wedding day with a game-changing plot twist.
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CINDERELLA National Tour to Play Hobby Center, 5/26-6/7

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