Austin Pendleton

Austin Pendleton is an American Actor, Director, and Playwright. He made his New York debut in Oh Dad, Poor Dad,... by Arthur Kopit and his Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof, both directed by Jerome Robbins. On Broadway, he was in The Minutes. Other Broadway credits include The Diary of Anne Frank with Natalie Portman and Linda Lavin, Choir Boy, Grand Hotel, Doubles, The Runner Stumbles, Goodtime Charley, An American Millionaire, Hail Scrawdyke!. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for the 1981 revival of The Little Foxes. Off-Broadway, he won an Obie for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac. Off-Off-Broadway he played title roles in Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III and King Lear.