Jeanne L. Austin Biography

Ms. Austin, a member of Actors' Equity Association, has played in regional, stock, and dinner theaters, in roles ranging from Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT at Theatre Project Company, St. Louis, to Big Mama in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at Oakland West Dinner Theatre, Ft. Lauderdale. Ms. Austin is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. She has made commercials for both radio and television and was in the TV mini-series WOMEN IN WHITE and had featured roles in the motion pictures THE FUNHOUSE and STUKEY'S LAST STAND. She recently completed principal photography as the mother in Flying Cloud Films' MOTHER AND CHILD. Since 1984, she has been producing and performing one-woman plays for HerStory Productions, a creative partnership with her husband, Peter Nadolny. Ms. Austin is currently director of the One Accord Choir, a group sponsored by the Sussex County Association for Retarded Citizens. She also trains and performs with an educational puppet troupe, Kids on the Block, which presents puppet plays in schools. A member of the acting company of TAT since 1992, Ms. Austin has played Maggie Murphy in DANCING AT LUGHNASA, Ruth in MARVIN'S ROOM, and Amanda in THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Besides portraying "A" in Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN, Ms. Austin's was also featured this season as the Narrator in TAT's A CHRISTMAS CAROL .