Mariclare Costello teaches beginning acting and directing. She directed
critically acclaimed productions of Lobby Hero and Our Town. She also
directed Third Floor, Second Door on the Right at the Cherry Lane
Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. She also
directed The Servant of Two Masters and The Skin of Our Teeth at LMU.
She has an MFA from Catholic University of America with a concentration
in acting and directing. She studied Improvisation with Viola Spolin in
one of Ms. Spolin's intensive master classes.
She has taught at the
American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York. She was one of the
original members of the Lincoln Center Repertory Company where she
originated the role of Louise in Arthur Miller's After the Fall,
directed by Elia Kazan, and also appeared in But For Whom Charley, and
The Changeling also directed by Mr. Kazan, Marco's Millions, directed by
Jose Quintero, Tartuffe directed by Bill Ball, Danton's Death and The
Country Wife.
On Broadway she appeared in Harvey (with Jimmy Stewart and
Helen Hayes), A Patriot For Me (with Maximillian Schell), Lovers and
Other Strangers, and The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. She worked for
two years as a member of Jerome Robbins' American Theatre Lab. At the
N.Y. Public Theatre she appeared in The Orphan by David Rabe. At the
Mark Taper Forum she played the role of Mary Moylan in The Trial of the
Cantonsville-9.
She has starred in many Movies-of-the-Week, including The
Execution of Private Slovic, Raid on Entebbe, Victims For Victims, and
The Coward of the County. Recurring roles on TV series include playing
Rosemary Fordwick opposite John Ritter in The Waltons, Mrs. Fitzpatrick
on The Fitzpatricks, and guest appearances on many more. Films include
Buckaroo Bonzai, Nightmares, Ordinary People, Let's Scare Jessica to
Death, and The Tiger Makes Out.
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