*Derwent Award for performance on Broadway
"Egan's Sonia DOMINATES THE STAGE" -NY Daily News
"The play comes DRAMATICALLY ALIVE ... Jenny Egan* leads us artfully from dispassion to concern" -- NY Times
"Egan was grand ... THE STAGE WAS AGLOW ALL THE TIME SHE WAS ON IT. Well worth a trip to the city to see." - Greenwood Lake News
"WARMTH AND FEROCITY ... the style and characterization are ELOQUENT." -- Voice
Mrs. Gogan in O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," Phoenix Theatre production
Chinese Wife in "The Good Woman of Setzuan" with Uta Hagen
Lead in the Berlin Festival production of "Heaven and Earth," premiered in New York with Will Paton
Some of Jenny Egan's stage roles:
Mary Warren in the premiere of
"The Crucible"
on Broadway
Roles
With Roberts Blossom in the American Premiere of Ionesco's "The Chairs."
The Mother, with Rip Torn in "The Cuban Thing" on Broadway
The Child in the American premiere of Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano."
Isabel, Queen of France, NY Shakespeare Festival production of "Henry V"
The Old Woman in the American premiere of Albee's "Box Mao Box"
TV and FILM
"Sis" Peepers with Wally Cox
All major networks
"Love of Life" (running part)
"They Might Be Giants" with
George C. Scott, "Murder, Inc."
with Peter Falk, etc.
Edward Albee and Jenny Egan at the cast party of "Albee's Women"
Egan at a book signing in a gym in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of her book, "A Space in Time."
"Under Milkwood" directed by William Ball
PUBLICATIONS
"A Space in Time: Profile of a Documentary Theatre"
"Imaging the Role"
"Loud and Clear: Creating Primary Source Documentaries" (ms)
"A System of Collapsible Period Furniture" (thesis)
"A Victorian Carnival" (children's book sold a the Statue of Liberty)
15 produced documentaries
1 musical (lyrics, music and book)