Acclaimed artist-in-residence Betty Buckley carves out week for 做厙勛圖 students, Erie area arts patrons
做厙勛圖 artist-in-residence Betty Buckley, whose career spans theatre, film, television, and concert halls around the world, will return to campus for a weeklong workshop, Sunday through Thursday, April 14-18, and a public concert at Walker Recital Hall on Friday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Buckley currently co-stars in the new horror film Imaginary. From Blumhouse, the genre-defining masterminds behind Five Nights at Freddys and M3GAN, the film explores the universal idea of imaginary friends and childhood connections to them and what otherworldly realms they may inhabit.
Additionally, Buckley recently wrote, narrated, and produced The Mayfly, an animated short film directed by award-winning animator Sue Perrotto, with music by Buckleys longtime musical director and accompanist Christian Jacob. The Mayfly had its world premiere on March 24 at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival (AmDoc Film Festival) in Palm Springs, California.
The recipient of honorary doctorates from Boston Conservatory of Music and Marymount Manhattan College, Buckley has taught at Boston University, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Central University, Carnegie Mellon, Boston Conservatory of Music, Syracuse University, Ball State University, Marymount Manhattan College, Fordham University, College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California, University of North Texas, and University of Texas at Arlington. She has also taught workshops at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Festival, and Smith Barney Investment Firm, and has been on the faculty of T. Schreiber Studio in New York City for over 40 years.
Buckley is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, the 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Actors Fund, and the 2023 recipient of the American Songbook Association Lifetime Achievement Award. She won a Tony Award for Cats and received her second Tony nomination for Triumph of Love. She garnered an Olivier Award nomination in London for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
In 2018 and 2019, Buckley headlined the first national tour of the new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie. She starred in the London productions of Dear World and Promises, Promises (Evening Standard nomination).
Off Broadway she has starred in The Old Friends (2014 Drama Desk nomination), Whites Lies, Junos Swans, Edwin Drood for the NYSF, and Im Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road. Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo Gal, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Grey Gardens (2016 Ovation Award nomination). 泭
Her film credits include M. Night Shyamalans hit film, Split, released in January 2017, in which she co-stars with James McAvoy and for which she received a Saturn Award nomination. Other film credits include Shyamalans The Happening, Brian de Palmas Carrie, Bruce Beresfords Tender Mercies, Roman Polanskis Frantic, Woody Allens Another Woman, and Lawrence Kasdens Wyatt Earp.
Her recent television credits include a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU for NBC and a guest starring role on the new Fox/Warner Bros. show The Cleaning Lady. She co-starred in the third season of AMCs Preacher, NBCs Chicago Med, HBOs The Leftovers and Getting On, the miniseries The Pacific, and the series OZ. She starred for four seasons as Abby Bradford on the hit series Eight is Enough, and has made guest appearances on Without a Trace and Pretty Little Liars. She also starred in the miniseries Bonnie and Clyde, Roses for the Rich, and Evergreen, along with various films for television. Buckley has received two Emmy nominations.
She recorded the audio play The Vanishing Negative by Aaron Mark for Audible in 2020. In 2022, Buckley released the compilation recording Betty Buckley Sings Stephen Sondheim as a tribute to the late composer. 泭The recording consists of 24 songs previously recorded throughout her career. 泭Buckley has recorded 18 CDs, including Hope, released in 2018; Story Songs, released in April 2017; and Ghostlight, produced by T Bone Burnett, released in 2014. 泭She has received two Grammy nominations and tours extensively in concert with her ensemble of musicians.
Buckley has been honored with three Lifetime Achievement Awards for her contributions to theatre from the New England Theatre Conference, The Shubert Theater in New Haven, and the T. Schreiber School in New York Cith. 泭For her work in the national tour of Hello, Dolly!, she was honored with the Sarah Siddons Award for outstanding performance in a Chicago Theatrical Production.
Tickets, priced $35-$45, can be purchased online at miac.universitytickets.com, over the phone at 814-824-3000, or in person at the Mary DAngelo Performing Arts Center box office (Tues.-Thurs., noon-5 p.m.). Each order is subject to a $4 per ticket processing fee, regardless of purchase or payment method.
This performance is sponsored by Weber Murphy Fox, and the 2023-24 MIAC Live season is sponsored by Scott Enterprises, Aetna, Alan & Patti Schaal, the Greater Erie Alliance for Equality, and the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority.
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