Gola Meir
Tovah Feldshuh
is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has previously appeared at the Globe in The Country Wife, Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentleman of Verona. She has earned four Tony Award 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 for Best Actress for her work on the New York stage, from Yentl to Saravà! to Lend Me A Tenor to Golda's Balcony. Soon after its Broadway run, Feldshuh brought her Golda to Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. She then starred in New York as Polish Christian rescuer Irena Gut Opdyke in Dan Gordon’s Irena’s Vow. Her film credits include O Jerusalem (as Golda Meir opposite Ian Holm), Love Life, Love Comes Lately, Kissing Jessica Stein (Best Supporting Actress, Golden Satellite Award), A Walk On The Moon, Lady in the Water, Just My Luck, The Idolmaker, Toll Booth (Best Supporting Actress, Method Fest) and the soon to be released Mount Of Olives, Ten Stories Tall, Baker and Heterosexuals. On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the Czech freedom fighter Helena in Holocaust. Her television credits include The Amazing Howard Hughes, Citizen Cohn, “The Cosby Mysteries” and “The Cosby Show,” and The Education of Max Bickford. In 2004 she was nominated for her second Emmy for her work on “Law & Order” as defense attorney Danielle Melnick. Her one-woman show, Tovah: Out Of Her Mind!, sold out in London’s West End and culminated in a symphonic concert with Billy Crystal at Los Angeles’ Royce Hall. Feldshuh created a new concert entitled Mining Golda: My Journey to Golda Meir which also played the West End, as well as Manchester, Leeds, Johannesburg and Sydney.
Playwright
William Gibson
was born in 1914 in New York City and was the author of poetry, fiction and scripts for stage, television and films. His plays include The Miracle Worker, which was originally produced for TV’s “Playhouse 90,” Two for the Seesaw, A Cry of Players, Golda, The Butterfingers Angel, Monday After the Miracle, Goodly Creatures and Handy Dandy, as well as the musical version of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. His several books include The Cobweb, The Seesaw Log, A Mass for the Dead, A Season in Heaven, Shakespeare’s Game and a volume of poetry entitled Winter Crook. The 1955 film version of The Cobweb was directed by Vincent Minnelli and starred Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer and Lillian Gish. Gibson was elected to the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005. He died in 2008 at the age of 94.
