Golda's Balcony

Tovah Feldshuh (Golda Meir)

For her work on the New York stage, from Yentl to Saravà! to Lend Me A Tenor to Golda's Balcony, Tovah Feldshuh has earned four Tony 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.  On October 3, 2004, Golda's Balcony became the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Since the Broadway run, Ms. Feldshuh has played sold-out engagements of Golda’s Balcony in London, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.  She starred on Broadway as Polish Christian rescuer Irena Gut Opdyke in Dan Gordon’s Irena’s Vow for which she was voted Best Performance of the Year by thousands on BroadwayWorld.com.  Her most recent New York performance was in Nora & Delia Ephron’s off-Broadway smash, Love, Loss, and What I Wore.  Film audiences recognize Ms. Feldshuh from Fox Searchlight’s Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress; A Walk On The Moon with Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen; Lady in the Water for M. Night Shyamalan opposite Paul Giamatti; Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan; The Idolmaker (directed by Taylor Hackford); and Toll Booth (winner – Best Supporting Actress - Method Fest 2005). Last season she appeared on the big screen in O Jerusalem as Golda Meir opposite Ian Holm, Love Life for German director Maria Schrader, and Love Comes Lately at  the Sundance Film Festival.  Films soon to be released include Mount Of Olives with F. Murray Abraham, David Garrett’s Ten Stories Tall playing love-torn Grace Parker, Baker as army nurse Ruth Baker and Heterosexuals as fine art dealer Remy.  On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the Czech freedom fighter Helena in Holocaust.  She starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, Bill Cosby on “The Cosby Mysteries” and “The Cosby Show,” and Richard Dreyfuss in 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 at the Duke Of York’s, and culminated in a symphonic concert with Billy Crystal at Los Angeles’ Royce  Hall.  The Boston Globe selected Tovah: Out Of Her Mind! as the  best one-person show of 2000.  Ms. Feldshuh created a new concert entitled Mining Golda: My Journey to Golda Meir which also played the West End at the Savoy Theatre, as well as the Sheridan Suites in Manchester, The Royal Armouries in Leeds, Vodaworld in Johannesburg and The Entertainment Centre of Sydney, Australia. Ms. Feldshuh is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitas Award, The Israel Peace Medal & an Honorary Doctorate from Yeshiva University. She is married to New York attorney Andrew Harris Levy. They have two children: Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire.  Find her on Facebook, and visit her website at www.tovahfeldshuh.com.

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