She also adapted such plays as “Mother Courage” and “The Trojan Women” for the theater company. Her prolific directing credits include many of the classics: “Orpheus Descending,” “The House of Bernarda Alba,” “Uncle Vanya,” and “A Touch of the Poet,” as well as the more contemporary (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Kennedy’s Children”). She scored theater triumphs in “A Man’s a Man,” for which she won an Off-Broadway Obie Award in 1962 several productions of “The Cherry Orchard” and “Mother Courage” “Six Characters in Search of an Author” “The Rose Tattoo” “The Seagull” “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” (another Obie Award) and, more notably, her many performances as the title role in “Hecuba.” A good portion of her successes was launched within the walls of her own theater company, which encouraged the birth of new and untried plays. She also became a master instructor at New York University for fourteen years. As actress, director, producer and teacher, she still found the time to raise their three young children. The New York-based couple went on to co-found the Whole Theatre Company in Montclair, New Jersey, and ran the company for 19 years (1971-1990). Olympia married Yugoslav-American actor Louis Zorich in 1962. in the summer of 2013 as the title role in “Mother Courage and Her Children.” She will be seen again at Shakespeare & Co. She has performed in over 130 productions Off-Broadway and regionally at theatres including the Public Theatre, A.C.T., Shakespeare in the Park, Shakespeare & Co., and the Williamstown Summer Theatre Festival, where she also served as Associate Director. Most recently she was seen on the New York stage in the Roundabout Theatre’s production of “The Milktrain Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” (2011), in San Francisco in A.C.T.’s production of “Vigil” (2011) and as “Prospera” in “The Tempest” (2012) at Shakespeare & Co. The play earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award nomination and she continues to tour the country with it. In 1999, she premiered a one-woman play “Rose”, at the National Theatre in London and subsequently on Broadway in 2000. She made her Broadway debut as an understudy in “The Aspern Papers” at age 30, followed by very short runs in the plays “Abraham Cochrane” (1964) and “Who’s Who in Hell” (1974). Olympia found early success by distinguishing herself first on stage performing in summer stock and with several repertory and Shakespearean companies throughout the county.
She later returned to her alma mater and entered the graduate program in performing arts and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
She practiced as a physical therapist during the polio epidemic. She majored, however, in physical therapy at Boston University, where she graduated with a BA. Olympia Dukakis was born on June 20, 1931, in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Greek immigrants (Constantine and Alexandra (née Christos) Dukakis). Her adaptability to various ethnicities (Greek, Italian, Jewish, Eastern European, etc.), as well her chameleon-like versatility in everything from cutting edge comedy to stark tragedy, has kept her in high demand for the past 30 years as of one of Hollywood’s topnotch character players.
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Since then movie (and TV) fans have discovered - an acting treasure. Long a vital, respected actor of the classic and contemporary stage and the epitome of Mediterranean-styled weariness, this grand lady did not become a household name and sought-after film actress until age 56 when she turned in an Oscar-winning performance as Cher’s sardonic mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987).
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