Janis Dardaris

Janis Dardaris (Breda): most recently: Morning After Grace, Montgomery Theater Company; InterAct: Whores, The How and the Why; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Sideman, Nickel and Dimed, As Is; People’s Light: Playhouse Creatures, The Little Foxes  Project Dawn, Morning’s at Seven, The Children; Quintessence Theatre: Mother Courage, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Seagull, The Importance of Being Earnest; Wilma Theater: Leaving, Road, Quartet, Escape from Happiness, Orpheus Descending, Spin, The Magic Fire , Scorched , Becky Shaw; Arden Theatre: Rabbit Hole; Walnut Street Theatre; PlayPenn; Regional: McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Long Wharf, Cleveland Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth, Kennedy Center, Arizona Theatre, Three Rivers Shakespeare, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival (originated the role of Susan Slater in Becky Shaw). New York: Playwrights Horizons, New York Classical Theatre, Westbeth, Summer Play Festival on Theatre Row, Breaking Legs with Philip Bosco (also national tour with Danny Aiello). Awards: nominated for 10 Barrymore Awards; 1998 winner of the Charlotte Cushman Barrymore for best actress for her performance as Josie Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten; 2009 winner of Best Supporting Actress in Scorched. TV and Film: The Sixth Sense, Party Monster, Third Watch, Trial by Jury, Law and Order, The Sopranos, Bliss, 1967, the lead in Sounding directed by Joel Coen, featured role as Grace in Cruzando, Featured in The Chosen as Zohara, Film and TV: Power, Bull and Grow an unconventional horror film due for release later this year.