BIOGRAPHY
Tovah Feldshuh is currently starring as Naomi Bunch in the Golden Globe-winning hit, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND on the CW, where she can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: “Where’s the Bathroom!†She recently finished playing Deanna Monroe, head of Alexandria, in the runaway hit THE WALKING DEAD for AMC. She can also be seen on Starz as Russian Ballet Mistress, Ivana, in the miniseries FLESH & BONE. She recently appeared on Broadway as the trapeze-swinging Berthe in the Tony Award-winning musical revival of PIPPIN. Prior to that, she played Lady Politic in the acclaimed revival of Ben Jonson’s VOLPONE at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
For her other work on the New York stage, from YENTL to SARAVA! and LEND ME A TENOR to GOLDA’S BALCONY and IRENA’S VOW, she has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. On October 3, 2004, GOLDA’S BALCONY became the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway, a record it still holds. Since then, Ms. Feldshuh toured GOLDA throughout North America. Last December, she performed Golda’s Balcony for 2,000 people at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York.
For her other work on the New York stage, from YENTL to SARAVA! and LEND ME A TENOR to GOLDA’S BALCONY and IRENA’S VOW, she has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. On October 3, 2004, GOLDA’S BALCONY became the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway, a record it still holds. Since then, Ms. Feldshuh toured GOLDA throughout North America. Last December, she performed Golda’s Balcony for 2,000 people at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Read More Her additional stage, film, TV and directorial credits are too many to mention, along with a seemingly endless list of accolades for her work. As Jason Zinoman of The New York Times raved, “No one earns more laughs than the marvelous Tovah Feldshuh. Her diva-like flourishes are precisely timed, her entrances and exits designed for maximum impact.†Ms. Feldshuh, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and a winner of the McKnight Fellowship to the Guthrie Theatre and the University of Minnesota, has taught at Yale, Cornell and New York Universities and was awarded two honorary Doctors of Humane Letters. She is a supporter of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict and is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award and the Israel Peace Medal. Ms. Feldshuh is married to New York Attorney, Andrew Harris Levy. They have two children, Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire, now married to Joel Ryzowy. www.tovahfeldshuh.com
