Diane Kagan Biography (1943-)
Born in 1943, in Maplewood, NJ; daughter of Stanley W. (a real estate developer and mayor) and Natalie B. (a painter) Kagan. Addresses: Agent--Henderson-Hogan, 850 Seventh Ave., Suite 1003, New York, NY 10019.
- Nationality
- American
- Birth Details
- 1943
- Maplewood, New Jersey, United States
Famous Works
- Credits; Stage Appearances
- Asylum, Broadway production, 1963.
- The Chinese Prime Minister, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1964.
- The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Capital Repertory Company, Albany, NY, 1987-88.
- Donna Matilde, Enrico IV, Roundabout Theatre, New York City, 1988-89.
- Zelda Fitzgerald, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, York Theatre Company, Theatre at St. Peter's Church, New York City, 1995.
- Made stage debut in title role, Rosemary, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds,Spoleto, Italy; appeared in The Family, Chelsea Theatre, New York City; Alive and Well in Argentina, St. Clement's Theatre, New York City; Emma Instigated Me, American Place Theatre, New York City; Luminosity, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City; High Time and On the Rocks, WPA Theatre, New York City; Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Burt Reynolds' Jupiter Theatre, FL; as Blanche, Streetcar Named Desire, Arena Stage, Washington, DC; Shivaree, Long Wharf Theatre,New Haven, CT; as Viola, Twelfth Night, Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH; Man on a Fence, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA; and Poor Richard,Pocono Playhouse. Appeared on Broadway as Ellen, Any Wednesday; as Jane, Vieux Carre; in Never Too Late and A Doll's House; as Thea, Hedda Gabler; and inVenus Is. Appeared at Lincoln Center in Macbeth and Little Black Sheep, and as Helen of Troy, Tiger at the Gates; appeared off-Broadway in Scenes from Everyday Life, The Days and Nights of Beebe Fenstermaker, Death of a Well-LovedBoy, Blue Boys, Alive and Well in Argentina, Ladyhouse Blues, Marvelous Gray,and in the title role in Madame De Sade; appeared in the stock productions Here Lies Jeremy Troy and The Whole Ninth Floor; also appeared in Five Women in a Chapel.
- Credits; Television Appearances; Movies
- Hillary, The Art of Crime, NBC, 1975.
- Rose Long, The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish (also known as HueyLong), NBC, 1977.
- Mrs. Rosnic, Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II, CBS, 1978.
- "Barn Burning," American Short Story, PBS, 1980.
- Mother Seton, ABC, 1981.
- In the Gloaming, HBO, 1997.
- Credits; Television Appearances; Episodic
- Judge, "The Secret Sharers," Law and Order, NBC, 1991.
- Judge Kleinfeldt, Law and Order, NBC, 1992.
- Appeared in episodes of The Best of Everything, ABC; Andros Targets, CBS;Another World, NBC; The Edge of Night, ABC; and Search for Tomorrow.
- Credits; Other Television Appearances
- A Time for Miracles, 1980.
- Credits; Film Appearances
- Nurse, Jacob's Ladder (also known as Dante's Inferno), TriStar, 1990.
- Julia, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Miramax, 1990.
- Mrs. Baum, Bleeding Hearts (also known as White Man's Burden), Peacock Films, 1994.
- Lifebreath, First Look Pictures, 1997.
- Appeared in The Debutantes (short).
- Writings;Plays
- Marvelous Gray, O'Neill Playwright's Conference, Waterford, CT, 1982, then Lion Theatre Company, New York City.
- Author of Man on a Fence, O'Neill Playwright's Conference.
- Writings;Books
- Who Won Second Place at Omaha?, photographs by Meryl Joseph, Random House(New York City), 1975.