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Theresa Merritt Biography (1922-)

Born September 24, 1922, in Newport News, VA. Addresses: AGENT--Bauman, Hiller, and Associates, 250 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10107 and 5750 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 512, Los Angeles, CA 90038.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Birth Details

September 24, 1922

Newport News, Virginia, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; STAGE APPEARANCES
• Sister Henrietta Pinkston, Trumpets of the Lord, Brooks Atkinson Theatre,New York City, 1969.
• Ruby, Five on the Black Hand Side, American Place Theatre, St.
• Clement's Church Theatre, New York City, 1970.
• Berenice Sadie Brown, F. Jasmine Addams, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1971.
• Miss Maybell, Don't Play Us Cheap, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1972.
• Tituba, The Crucible, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1972.
• Mammy, Gone with the Wind, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, then Curran Theatre, San Francisco, CA, both 1973.
• Evillene, The Wiz, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1976.
• Berenice Sadie Brown, The Member of the Wedding, Hartford Stage Company,Hartford, CT, 1980.
• Mrs. Bruchinski, Division Street, Ambassador Theatre, Los Angeles, 1980.
• ensemble, Talking With (revue), Manhattan Theatre Club Downstage, New York City, 1982.
• Sarah Goldfine, Something Different, South Street Theatre, New York City,1983.
• Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1983, then Cort Theatre, New York City, 1984.
• Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Part One, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1987.
• Reverend Sister Rena Pinkston, God's Trombones, New Federal Theatre, Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York City, 1989.
• Also appeared in La Dispute, Theatre National Populaire, Lyttelton Theatre, London, 1976; Trouble in Mind, Pilgrim Theatre, New York City, 1979; A Raisin in the Sun, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY, 1982; Marriage, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1985.
• Credits; FILM APPEARANCES
• Peggy, They Might Be Giants, Universal, 1977.
• Mrs. Crosby, The Goodbye Girl, Warner Brothers, 1977.
• Aunt Em, The Wiz, Universal, 1978.
• Arrabelle Smalls, The Great Santini, Orion/Warner Brothers, 1979.
• Jewel, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Universal, 1982.
• Simone, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Universal, 1988.
• Credits; TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SERIES
• "Mama" Eloise Curtis, That's My Mama, ABC, 1974-75.
• Credits; MOVIES
• Miracle at Beekman's Place, NBC, 1989.